EcoEnergy Municipal Energy Efficiency Network

Energy Efficiency Strategy to Mitigate GHG
Emissions. Energy Efficiency
Demonstration Zone in the city of Gabrovo
The project is financed by the Global
Environment Facility through the UNDP. It
aims at dissemination among Bulgarian
municipalities of policies and practices that
can assist them to overcome successfully
the barriers to energy efficiency
improvement and reduction of GHG
emissions and other environmental
polluters.
The project comprises two major components:
Local capacity building in Bulgarian
municipalities in the field of energy
efficiency;
Supporting demonstration projects
in typical energy end-user municipal sites.
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a financing
mechanism. It is structured as a thrust fund, operating
in collaboration and partnership with its three
executive agencies - the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), the United
Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the
World Bank, with the aim to achieve global environmental
benefits.
The activities incorporated in the first project
component are its core. They comprise
introduction of energy efficiency
management in municipalities, training of
local decision-makers and experts and
introduction of financial tools and
mechanisms for implementation of energy
efficiency projects.
The demonstrations under the second
project component aim at supporting the
development of local institutional and human
capacity and consolidating its importance for
and impact on the municipal policy. They
comprise representative projects in the field
of street lighting, district heating and
buildings. The demonstration projects
illustrate how the local institutions and the
newly acquired knowledge and skills might
be applied under real conditions.
The activities under the two project
components are concentrated in Gabrovo.
This municipality acts as a specific
laboratory in which different management
and technical approaches and solutions are
elaborated and tested. In fact, the impact of
the project is spread among all the
municipalities-members of the Municipal
Energy Efficiency Network EcoEnergy and
in a number of cases even beyond its
boundaries. The number of municipalities
influenced by the experience of the Energy
Efficiency Demonstration Zone in the city of
Gabrovo provides grounds to consider that
the reforms in the field of sustainable
management of natural resources are
welcome throughout the country.
The United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) is the UN global network for introducing
change and facilitating the exchange of knowledge,
experiences and resources among the states with
the aim to help people build a better life. UNDP is
present in 166 states and works jointly with them for
resolution of global issues and the national problems
they stumble upon. Until they deve-lop their own
local capacity they may draw on the experience of
UNDP and its numerous partners.
UNDP/GEF support environmental projects in the
field of biodiversity, climate change, international
waters, depletion of the ozone layer in the atmosphere,
durable organic polluters and soil erosion.
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