About EE2000
In the Bergen Ministerial Declaration on Sustainable Development in May 1990, governments agreed to initiate an ECE region-wide campaign, "ENERGY EFFICIENCY 2000", to enhance trade and co-operation in energy efficient, environmentally sound techniques and management practices to close the energy efficiency gap between actual practice and best technologies, and between ECE countries through national actions, bilaterally and especially through the Economic Commission for Europe.
The EE2000 Project assisted Central and Eastern Europe and CIS countries to enhance their energy efficiency and security to ease the energy supply constraints of economic transition. The EE2000 Project assists these countries in meeting international environmental treaty obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
The EE2000 Project (1991-2000) has been notably successful in leveraging modest resources to achieve its stated objectives. Not only has EE 2000 produced direct results that are way beyond what might be expected from the resources available, but it has also been a catalyst for additional bilateral, multilateral and private initiatives, the most recent being the UNF/UNFIP Project for Energy Efficiency Investment for Climate Change Mitigation (ECE-CIS-99-043).
