Coolproducts is a campaign to set ambitious minimum requirements for energy efficiency and other environmental aspects of products sold in the European Union.

If we are successful, it will become easier for consumers in Europe - a market of almost 500 million people - to choose greener products and fight climate change.

Tuesday Jan 19, 2010

New year, new efficiency hopes

Happy 2010 to all our readers! This promises to be very eventful year for the Coolproducts campaign and the crucial piece of European Union legislation we are monitoring – the Eco-Design of Energy Using Products Directive. We have a new European Commission, a relatively new European Parliament and a number of important minimum requirements...
Monday Nov 23, 2009

Compromise decisions emerge on A-G label and buildings

A final agreement was reached last week on two key EU energy efficiency policies: the revision of the energy efficiency legislation for buildings and the revision of the EU A-G energy labelling scheme. On the energy label, the dispute (which we wrote about here and then here) between the European Parliament and some Member States led by the...
 

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This site is for anyone wanting to find out about EU product efficiency and ecodesign policies, and efforts to improve them. If you need specialist or technical information, please check the NGO website for experts.
 
Boilers
Boilers - Strikingly, the stock of our heating equipment is responsible for 25% of all CO2 emissions...
TVs
TVs - Televisions contribute significantly to the energy use of European households. Given...
Lightbulbs
Lightbulbs - The traditional short-lived incandescent bulb is one of the least energy efficient ways of...
 

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