Enigin Update - Billions Saved from Global Switch to Energy Efficient Lighting
DURING the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, this week the importance of energy efficient lighting to reduce energy demand, emissions and energy costs has been stressed.
Using dramatic predictions on the savings to be made in various countries the point was made for businesses and governments to start saving through turning their attention to lighting.
The findings were released yesterday at the climate convention meeting by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Here are some of the revelations:
Indonesia could save $1 billion a year and cut its greenhouse gas emissions by eight million tonnes of CO2 annually - the equivalent of taking two million cars off the road a year - by switching to energy-saving lighting.
South Africa might save $280 million a year and remove emissions equal to 625,000 cars annually by following a similar path,.
Mexico would save $900 million, reducing 5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions a year in a soon to be announced plan to use energy efficient lighting across the country. With the electricity saved from this it is estimated that three coal power plants would become unnecessary.
It is expected that Brazil will save $2 billion a year and 4 million tonnes of CO2 when energy efficiency lighting legislation is finalised, by mid 2012.
In the Ukraine, an economy in transition, the cost savings could be $210 million per annum with greenhouse gas reductions of 2 million tonnes of CO2 a year.
Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, said regarding these figures:
“In reality, the actual economic benefits could be even higher. A switch to efficient lighting in Indonesia, for example, would avoid the need to build 3.5 coal-fired power stations costing $2.5 billion and similar findings come from other country assessments.
“Such calculations do not include the wider environmental, health and ‘Green Economy’ benefits to communities and countries of switching away from, for example, fuels such as kerosene and reducing emissions from sources such as fossil-fueled power stations - an estimated 1.8 million deaths a year are linked with in-door and 800,000 with out-door air pollution: more efficient lighting has a role to play here too,” he concluded.
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