Cooking

Electric Cooking Impacts: Electric Pressure Cookers Enhance Community Resiliency 

In 2020, the Global LEAP Awards launched the inaugural Electric Pressure Cooker (EPC) Competition. Through the Electric Cooking Impact Series, we share insights into the role of EPCs in enhancing community resiliency to global shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic.

28 Sep 2020

Lighting

Report Shows Market Readiness to Eliminate Mercury-Based Lighting

A new report by CLASP and the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA) on the availability of LED lighting in Europe shows that as the European Commission considers an update to rules governing the sale of products containing hazardous chemicals, there is no technical or economic justification for mercury-based fluorescent lamps to remain on the market.

24 Jul 2020

Cooling

Environmental Dumping, A Perspective from Ghana

In this article we’re pleased to feature CLASP partner Kofi Agyarko of Ghana’s Energy Commission, as part of CLASP’s #ClimateWiseCooling campaign. Mr. Agyarko’s interview supplements CLASP and IGSD’s recent publication “Environmentally Harmful Dumping of Inefficient and Obsolete Air Conditioners in Africa”.

09 Jul 2020

Off-Grid Solar Social Enterprises Respond to COVID-19 in Kenya & Zambia

Under the Global LEAP Awards Solar E-Waste Challenge, as Efficiency for Access Coalition Co-Secretariat CLASP has been working closely with Grantee companies across sub-Saharan Africa as they adapt operations to help vulnerable off-grid consumers navigate the COVID 19 Pandemic.

08 Jul 2020

A new report on environmental dumping, released in advance of World Refrigeration Day, finds that 35% of the room air conditioners (RACs) sold in many of Africa’s largest countries are low efficiency units with energy efficiency ratings of less than 3.0 W/W, a commonly adopted standard around the world.

24 Jun 2020

Cooling

ClimateWiseCooling: Advancing Sustainable Cooling in a Warming World

CLASP Senior Manager Ana Maria Carreño introduces the #ClimateWiseCooling campaign.

31 May 2020

Lighting

Mapping the Lighting Market in Tanzania and Zanzibar

In partnership with the World Bank, CLASP is conducting a comprehensive analysis of the lighting market, its stakeholders and supply chains in mainland Tanzania and its semi-autonomous island, Zanzibar. The study will support the development of lighting policy in the country and island in an effort to promote the adoption of safe and energy-efficient lighting.

07 May 2020

17 Mar 2020

Highlights from the Global Off-Grid Solar Forum & Expo

25 Feb 2020

USAID Announces Winners of the Second Solar E-Waste Challenge

24 Feb 2020

Cooling

Five New Papers Examine Appliance Ownership, Usage, and Policy in India

06 Feb 2020

Efficiency for Access Consumer Research to Inform Priorities and Approaches for Solar TV Stakeholders

06 Feb 2020

28 Jan 2020

27 Jan 2020

The Second Global LEAP Awards Solar E-Waste Challenge Nomination Summary

27 Jan 2020

16 Jan 2020

Cooling

Kenya’s New AC Standards Increase Efficiency Baseline While Reducing Harmful Refrigerants

26 Nov 2019

Insights from the Final Stage of the Global LEAP Awards Off-Grid Cold Chain Challenge

26 Nov 2019