Strategy for the Energy Efficiency 21 Project
During its eighth session in October 1998, the Committee on Sustainable Energy: approved the preparation of the strategy for a new project "Energy Efficiency 21" to assist ECE member states to implement greenhouse gas mitigation strategies and to develop related energy efficiency investment projects at the conclusion of the third phase of the "Energy Efficiency 2000 Project". In November 1999, the Committee on Sustainable Energy welcomed the initial strategy for the Energy Efficiency 21 Project and requested the preparation of a final strategy and draft Project Plan (2000-2003) to be submitted to the present session of the Steering Committee.
This new project will support the objectives of the Committee on Sustainable Energy and its contributions to the Ninth Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-9). By placing the UNECEs work in energy efficiency firmly in the context of global climate change and sustainable development, it may now be possible to add impetus to the efforts of the central and eastern European economies in transition to mobilise market forces and private sector lending and investment in energy efficiency.
