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Sub-regional projects:
Financing Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Investments for Climate Change Mitigation (FEEI)
The project is to assist South-Eastern Europe (SEE) and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) countries to enhance their energy efficiency, diminish fuel poverty arising from economic transition and meet international environmental treaty obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The project will develop the skills of the private and public sectors at the local level to identify, develop and implement energy efficiency and renewable energy investment projects; provide assistance to municipal authorities and national governments to introduce economic, institutional and regulatory reforms needed to support these investments; and promote opportunities for banks and commercial companies to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy projects through the development of new public private partnership investment fund.
The Regional Network for Efficient Use of Energy and Water Resources in Southeast Europe (RENEUER)
RENEUER was founded at the end of 1999 at the initiative of representatives of several countries from the region. It is a tool for promotion of sustainable development of municipalities and regions through rational use of energy and water resources. Within a short time all countries participating in Southeast European Co-operative Initiative (SECI) and the Stability Pact (now Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) joined the Network of the project. This is a typical “bottom up” initiative aimed at facilitating and promoting sustainable development of the municipalities and regions in Southeast Europe through initiatives for efficient use of energy and water resources. RENEUER focuses its activities to accelerate regional networking by enhanced Internet communications to provide value added information on project finance; promote Energy Efficiency Investments on the local (municipal) level, developing skills and capacities and develop regional policies to support energy efficiency investments and the Kyoto Protocol mechanisms.
Increasing Energy Efficiency for Secure Energy Supplies
This project promotes the development of energy efficiency investments projects designed to reduce the domestic consumption of hydrocarbons in the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan and other Central Asia energy exporters in order to release additional energy resources which could be used for either for domestic consumption or to increase oil and natural gas exports, which will enhance security of supply.
Development of the Renewable Energy Sector in the Russian Federation and in CIS Countries
This project promotes interregional cooperation to overcome energy policy, regulatory, institutional and financial barriers to the development of renewable energy resources in the Russian Federation and countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The expected accomplishments of the project include the increased capacity of national and regional experts to identify and adopt measures to overcome barriers to the development of renewable energy resources as well as an enhanced investment climate for deployment of renewable energy technologies in the Russian Federation and CIS countries.
The project would address some of the problems described above by drawing upon lessons learned from experience in implementation of other subprojects of the EE21 Project related to energy efficiency investments. The project would focus on capacity building and awareness raising activities for the energy efficiency market formation. An important part of the project is establishment of the NALAS Energy Efficiency Knowledge Centre.
The main purpose of Buy Smart is to promote, implement and further develop the procurement of energy efficient products in private and public institutions, by using green procurement guidelines and other promotion and support tools based on eco-efficient criteria from well-established environmental and energy labels. A consortium of eight experienced institutions in seven EU Member States will implement the proposed project with support from national Steering Committees in each participating country.
At its third and fourth sessions, the UNECE Ad Hoc Group of Experts (AHGE) on CMM agreed that the global coal mining industry lacked a set of recommended (accepted) principles and standards to guide mine operators, regulators, government officials and technical professionals in more effectively managing their methane problems, especially in emerging economies. In this respect the Cooperative Project on Methane Capture and Use to Improve Mine Safety was launched at the 4th session of the AHGE on CMM (October 2008). The organizations supporting the initiative (UNECE and M2M Partnership) aim to contribute to improving mine safety practices through the development of a publication providing “Best Practices Guidance on Effective Methane Drainage and Use in Coal Mines”. The publication would detail the benefits, objectives and principles of coal mine methane drainage and utilization in order to reduce fatalities and injuries of mine workers, protect mine property, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and efficiently utilize valuable energy resources.
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