CLOSING THE GAP

Analyzing completed and slowly moving energy efficiency projects 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. Reviewing the world energy efficiency investment and disclosing the global energy efficiency gap and market barriers that cause the gap;

2. Leveraging private funds with public funds and other resources in energy efficiency investments; using these funds in tangible and intangible asset investments;

3. Investment effectiveness in dollars per metric ton of CO₂ emissions mitigation in 10 energy efficiency sub-areas;

4. Major barriers causing failure and abandonments in energy efficiency investments;

5. Quantification of direct and indirect CO₂ emissions mitigations inside and outside a project boundary; and

6. Classification and estimation of CO₂emissions mitigations from tangible and intangible asset investments.

Closing the Gap: GEF Experiences in Global Energy Efficiency 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.

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