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 May 8, 2012

Tumble driers energy use to shrink?

They can sometimes shrink your clothes to a fifth of their normal size but tumble driers, particularly in colder and wetter climes, are essential when we are unable to hang our clothes outside. Unfortunately they can be energy guzzling monsters costing us a fortune on energy bills but hopefully, things are about to change… On 10th May...
Tuesday Mar 13, 2012

The paradox of air conditioners

It’s getting warmer and more people are installing air conditioners in Europe every year meaning indoors we’re getting cooler but outdoors the climate will be getting a whole lot hotter. This is unless we can control the massive increase in energy use and CO2 emissions.  Yesterday the European Commission published energy...
Boilers & water heaters
Boilers & water heaters - Strikingly, the stock of our heating equipment is responsible for 25% of all CO2 emissions...
Computers, monitors, printers
Computers, monitors, printers - Computers, monitors and imaging equipment are the cornerstone of information and...
TVs
TVs - Television contributes significantly to the electricity use of European households (at least...
 

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