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The Vermont Senate followed in the footsteps of House of Representatives in adopting legislation to ban sales of 4-foot linear fluorescent light bulbs starting January 1, 2024.
04 May 2022
In the newly released 2021 Annual Report, we highlight how CLASP is making appliances as ‘planet neutral’ and ‘people positive’ as possible.
CLASP's senior leadership council has expanded to further integrate our programs and adapt our work to a changing world.
03 May 2022
Emphasizing the importance of clean energy solutions and appliance efficiency and quality policies are at the core of CLASP’s work. One step that is often overlooked in the energy efficiency sector is compliance, a critical activity that helps governments protect the anticipated benefits of efficiency policies for consumers, the market, and the planet.
18 Apr 2022
CLASP’s new report investigates the lack of appliance efficiency policy included in countries’ NDCs and provides recommendations to governments on how they can best leverage ambitious appliance efficiency policies in revised climate commitments.
29 Mar 2022
At the Minamata Convention on Mercury fourth Conference of Parties (COP4), 137 governments adopted amendments to phase out a major category of fluorescent lighting, but actions were stalled on others.
28 Mar 2022
New evidence from the Clean Lighting Coalition demonstrates that LEDs are a more cost-effective, safe and climate-friendly alternative to mercury-containing fluorescents for countries around the world.
10 Mar 2022
This International Women's Day, we highlight CLASP's Nyamolo Abagi who is launching hospital LED retrofits in Brazil, Nigeria and the Philippines to lower hospital energy costs, provide better quality lighting and reduce the risk of mercury exposure for both patients and staff.
04 Mar 2022
The European Commission published a law that will phase-out general purpose fluorescent lighting, citing mercury toxicity, across Europe in 2023. Since 2019, CLASP has contributed research and evidence to support this decision in Europe and is now working to phase-out fluorescents globally under the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
25 Feb 2022
EU domestic market for fluorescents will be gone in 2023 and regional export markets to the major trade partners is also being phased out by separate legislation. Through the EU Taxonomy Fund, there is potential to invest and convert these facilities to create a long-term, domestic supply of high-quality LED tubes in Europe, produced in Poland and Germany.
22 Feb 2022
CLASP recently updated Mepsy with the ‘African Lighting Amendment Scenario,’ demonstrating the national-level cost and energy savings if the world ends the manufacture, export and import of fluorescents by 2025. The scenario aligns with the proposed lighting amendment submitted by the African Region to the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
16 Feb 2022
Almost a year after its initial launch, Mepsy received a major update that includes lighting data and compliance rate considerations, giving users even more precise data.
08 Feb 2022
Since our last update, five new team members have joined our team. Learn about their passions for the environment, public service and new languages.
31 Jan 2022
CLASP has recently welcomed a new Program Manager for our work in Indonesia and our very first Director of Human Resources.
19 Nov 2021
Before and during COP26, 14 countries signed on to the Product Efficiency Call to Action. Through multiple articles, reports, and editorials, CLASP and its partners shared the necessity and urgency of widely adopting appliance energy efficiency policies on our journey to net zero emissions.
17 Nov 2021
The CLASP-coordinated Clean Lighting Coalition brings together 37 LED companies across 17 countries to demonstrate market readiness for a global transition to clean, energy-efficient LED lighting.
With the addition of four new signatories - Australia, Indonesia, Japan, and Nigeria - the Product Efficiency Call To Action becomes the largest commitment to improve appliance & product energy efficiency ever.
04 Nov 2021
To get the world back on track to avoid the dangerous consequences of 1.5 degree warming, Kofi Agyarko of Ghana & Peter Bennich of Sweden advocate for the inclusion of appliance efficiency in governments' NDCs.
03 Nov 2021
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