Closing the Gap: GEF Experiences in Global Energy Efficiency

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The Global Environment Facility, World Bank, Washington DC, USA

Closing the Gap: GEF Experiences in Global Energy Efficiency

Part of Springer's Green Energy and Technology Series

It is well known that energy efficiency has played and will play an important role in the world to save energy and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, but little is known about which investment characteristics, sub-areas, technologies, and countries will achieve maximum greenhouse gas emission mitigation per dollar of investment in energy efficiency worldwide.Analyzing 49 completed and 65 terminated energy efficiency projects invested and developed by the Global Environment Facility during 1991-2010, Closing the Gap: GEF Experiences in Global Energy Efficiency evaluates impacts of multi-billion-dollar investments in the world energy efficiency. It covers the following areas:

1. Leveraging private funds with public funds and other resources in energy efficiency investments; using these funds in tangible and intangible asset investments;
2. Investment effectiveness in dollars per metric ton of CO2 emission mitigation in 10 energy efficiency sub-areas;
3. Major barriers causing failure and terminations in energy efficiency investments;
4. Quantification of direct and indirect CO2 emission mitigations inside and outside a project boundary; and
5. Classification and estimation of CO2 emission mitigations from tangible and intangible investments.

This book can serve as a handbook for policymakers, project investors and managers, and project implementation practitioners in need of benchmarks in energy efficiency project investments for decision-making. It can also be used by students, researchers and other professionals in universities and research institutions in methodology development for evaluating energy efficiency projects and programs. 

Hard copy available date: First week of October 2012;

Where to get the book:

1. Springer and Amazon  websites;
2. More than 1,200 universities and research institutions  worldwide which subscribed publications of Springer. Students and professors will be able to download the book free of charge; 
3. Kindle e-book store (a few months after October 2012);
4. Apple e-book store (a few months after October 2012);
5. a few book stores in UK and Germany.