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Cooling

Pathways to Prevent Dumping of Climate Harming Room Air Conditioners in Southeast Asia

CLASP’s new report examines the ongoing, widespread sale of less efficient air conditioners with obsolete refrigerants across Southeast Asia. The research includes actionable solutions which could reduce a billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions over 25 years, and slash consumers energy bills.

Non-Compliance Risk Assessment Tool

The Non-Compliance Risk Assessment Tool allows users to evaluate energy efficiency and quality policy enforcement efforts and associated market non-compliance risk.

Integrating Appliance Efficiency into Nationally Determined Contributions

This report investigates the inclusion of appliance efficiency in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and advises governments on how they can best leverage ambitious appliance efficiency policies when revising climate commitments.

Study to Evaluate Online Energy Labelling Compliance in the EU

E-commerce is steadily growing in the EU, and numerous websites offer energy-using products for sale. In this study, CLASP and our partners assessed the proper display of appliance energy labels and related information on websites. The study covers six EU Member States: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, France, and Slovakia.

Cooling

Enabling Reliable Testing Capacity in Southeast Asia

In 2019, CLASP carried out an inter-laboratory comparison exercise in Vietnam—an exercise to assess regional testing capacity of air conditioners and promote more accurate, consistent, and reproducible tests. The Round Robin Testing Report summarizes the RRT exercise findings, analysis results, and recommendations to improve the testing procedures and processes.

Cooling

The Market Surveillance for Air Conditioners: Voluntary Guidelines for ASEAN Member States

The Market Surveillance for Air Conditioners: Voluntary Guidelines for ASEAN Member States provide best practice for governments and compliance authorities for designing and implementing national market surveillance efforts, or when revising and strengthening the existing ones.
The next frontier, productive uses of energy, is an area that CLASP and the Schatz Center have deep expertise in. They will be instrumental in shaping the next generation of quality assurance. Itotia Njagi
IFC Lighting Global Lead

Cooling

SEAD Global Appliance Testing Costs Catalogue

Cooling

Cooling in a Warming World

Intro to Compliance – CLASP Resources

Lighting

Quality Matters

Lighting Global Quality assurance tested a group of top-selling non-quality verified solar products in five domestic markets across Africa and South Asia. All 17 evaluated products failed to meet the Lighting Global Quality Standards for pico-PV products.

Enforcement of energy efficiency regulations for energy consuming equipment: findings from a new European study

Electronics

Off- and Weak-Grid Appliance & Equipment Technology Summaries

This document is a summary and distillation of CLASP’s research into appliances for which the demand is strong, but which are only available in low volumes and at relative­ly high cost. The summary also identifies early stage technologies which may be disruptive to existing dominant appli­ances.

Cooking

Standards and Labeling Best Practice

Compliance Authorities

Test Labs Database

Electronics

The State of the Global Off-Grid Appliance Market – Executive Summary

This four-page document summarizes the findings from The State of the Global Off-Grid Appliance Market 2016 report on three of the most promising off-grid appliances - fans, televisions, and refrigerators.

Motors

Evaluation of International Comparable Compliance Certification and Enforcement Requirements for Motors

Motors

Evaluation of International Comparable Compliance, Certification, and Enforcement Requirements for Electric Motors

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