This article announces the adoption of harmonised minimum energy performance standards for air conditioners and refrigerators in the 16 member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It also explains the process by which these harmonised standards were developed and adopted.
This article explores how the Central American Integration System (SICA) has helped lead the way to improve energy efficiency in appliances at the regional level, and the opportunities that further harmonisation could generate.
The average lifespan of a building is 50 years, so the design of buildings that are constructed now will have an effect on energy consumption in our cities until well into the 2070s. This article presents the most effective options for cities to set mandatory minimum energy performance standards for buildings, to prevent locking in […]
This guidebook summarizes a broad range of policy and financial instruments that governments can implement to foster the development of the interconnected mini-grid market, driven by the private sector.
This report explores how governments can catalyze the private sector’s role in ensuring a sustainable and just energy transition.
This report draws on the experience of members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee to identify emerging trends, good practice and lessons learned in their work with the private sector to leverage private capital, expertise, core business and market-based solutions to meeting the challenge of making development sustainable.
This report aims to quantify the investments required to build modern, clean energy systems and identify the policy actions and financial instruments that can deliver a major acceleration in private capital flows for the energy transition.
This brief discusses the fundamentals of private sector engagement in development cooperation and provides good practice case studies.