Product Efficiency 2008: Getting global agreement on defining energy efficient products

October 30 - 31, 2008, the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (eceee) invites for the conference: Product Efficiency 2008: Getting global agreement on defining energy efficienct products. The conference is held en Brussels, Belgium at La Bibliothéque Solvay.

Most regions of the world have introduced energy labelling schemes to help their consumers make more informed choices and also minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) to remove the most energy inefficient products from the market place. But climate change impacts demonstrate the need for even greater co-ordination and cooperation if the long-promised abatement from energy efficiency programmes is to be realised. As we are dealing with globally traded products, it is clear that there needs to be greater co-ordination between countries and regions in how we determine and rank good to bad energy performance and set MEPS.

The purpose of the conference is to help this global process. The eceee with support from the Australian Environment Department organizes the conference in Europe involving all the key players, including the EU, members of the new IEA implementing agreement Efficient Electrical End use Equipment (4E) and other relevant government bodies.

The conference will provide a forum to exchange information and seek consensus on the methodologies used to establish energy labels and to determine minimum efficiency performance standards around the world. The dialogue will bring support to each regional activity and make it easier and more cost effective to fulfil the aims of the individual programmes.

For further information please visit the eceee website.