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Transforming the Market for Efficient Lighting

[i]The project’s objectives to help transform the market towards more energy efficient lighting technologies by removing barriers which will contribute to the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Actions will be taken by the project to promote a gradual phase-out of inefficient lighting products in residential and public buildings. Global Environmental Facility participation in pilot projects at schools will remove existing barriers in seven pilot cities/municipalities and provide for the replication of defined approaches and measures in other major cities of Ukraine

In addition to reflecting national priorities in Ukraine, the proposed project also builds upon the existing goals and activities of UNDP, with environmental sustainability being one of the eight millennium development goals (MDGs) that UNDP is playing a central role in helping to promote. This project will also provide an innovative approach to energy efficiency projects, and be an important part of UNDP-GEF (Global Environmental Facility) portfolio complementing and building upon the lessons learned from other similar UNDP-GEF projects in Russia, Romania and Vietnam. For example, the project design addresses policy improvements in parallel with concrete actions to raise the quality of energy efficient lighting products on the market while providing initiatives for overcoming the larger upfront cost of quality energy efficient lighting products. In previous GEF energy efficient projects overcoming the upfront cost barrier was seen as more critical for success than e.g. only providing awareness raising activities.

The project will target five areas in order to accomplish its goals:
- Residential/Consumer Lighting
- Public Sector Lighting
- Domestic Lighting Suppliers
- Foreign Lighting Suppliers
- Domestic Testing Facilities for Quality Control

The five areas will be targeted within five components designed to produce real and demonstrable results with outcomes that can be monitored.

Component 1: Prepare and set-up national policy framework to promote energy-efficient (EE) lighting.
Component 2: Improved quality-assurance (QA) & quality-control (QC) for energy efficient (EE) lighting market
Component 3: Efficient lighting demonstration in municipal educational sector
Component 4: Improve energy efficient (EE) Lighting product penetration in the Residential Sector
Component 5: Replication and Dissemination of the Project Results

EXECUTING ENTITY/IMPLEMENTING PARTNER:
The Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine, UNDP and GEF

Further information: uapb@uapb.eu