Asia-Pacific GPP Network Webinar #6: Green Public Procurement of Energy-Efficient Cooling Appliances

This Asia Pacific Green Public Procurement (GPP) Network webinar session, hosted by KEITI and UNEP on 24 March 2022 focused on the Green Public Procurement of Energy-Efficient Cooling Appliances in Asia and the Pacific.

It provided an overview of United for Efficiency's GPP Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Air-Conditioners and Life-cycle costing calculation tool.

It also included two case studies from India and Thailand, with presentations from Environmental Design Solutions (EDS) / US Aid on the development of GPP criteria for ACs in India, and from GIZ's Green Cooling Initiative on Enhancing the uptake of green cooling technologies in Thailand.

The webinar recording can be viewed on the Asia Pacific GPP Network Youtube channel and presentations along with relevant additional material are proposed below.

Speakers' presentations:

• Green Public Procurement of Energy-Efficient Cooling Appliances, Soledad Garcia and Miquel Pitarch I Mocholi, United for Efficiency
• Development of GPP criteria for ACs in India, Nidhi Gupta, Environmental Design Solutions, and Apurva Chaturvedi, USAID
• Enhancing the uptake of green cooling technologies in Thailand, Denise Andres, GIZ

Useful links and resources on the GPP of Cooling appliances:

• U4E GPP guidelines for energy-efficient Air-conditioners and Excel tool for Lifecycle costing
• U4E Sustainable Public Procurement guidelines and tools (all)
• U4E Contract examples of Energy as a Service business model (for both lighting and cooling).
• U4E case study on 'Cooling as a Service' in the Caribbean for the tourism sector
• USAID MAITREE White paper on Advancing Green cooling through Sustainable Public Procurement
• GIZ Green Cooling Initiative

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