en.lighten assists countries in accelerating market transformation towards environmentally sustainable, efficient lighting technologies along three main tracks:
Promotion of high performance efficient technologies, showcasing best practice initiatives to expand the market for efficient lighting in developing and emerging countries.
- Phase out inefficient lighting technologies, developing a global policy strategy to phase-out inefficient and obsolete lighting products, in particular incandescent lamps, and thus abating GHG emissions from the lighting sector.
- Substitution of traditional fuel-based lighting with modern, efficient alternatives, with consideration for mercury free and environmentally sound technologies. This is especially essential as approximately a quarter of the world’s population uses fuel-based lighting, with the consequent health implications and CO2 and emissions.