Turkey: Draft Energy Efficiency Law for Buildings

Thailand: New energy strategic plan

Thailand: Thailand’s National Energy Policy and Development Plan

Costa Rica: Sustainable Development Strategic Partnership Among Benin, Bhutan and Costa Rica (Program for South-south Cooperation)

China: Market Transformation Programme - Partnership with the UK

China: Energy Conservation in Buildings

Within its 11th Five-Year Period, China plans to reduce residential and public buildings’ energy consumption by 50%, saving 50 million tons of standard coal. The federal plan for energy conservation in buildings formally mandates:
- the quick technical reform of heat-supply systems nation-wide;
- renewed efforts to promoting building energy efficiency technology and related products; and
- renovation of existing buildings in the nation’s cold northern regions, with particular focus on hotels. 

China: The Mandatory Comparative labeling program

The label first used for household refrigerators and room air conditioners

Date Implemented: 2005

Status: In Force; Mandatory

References: http://www.efficientlighting.net/doc/20070105(5).pdf

China: Energy Label

Household refrigerators and room air conditionings without this label were forbidden to be sold in Chinese market after March, 1st, 2005.

Date Implemented: 2005

Status: In Force; Mandatory

References: http://mail.mtprog.com/CD_Layout/Day_2_22.06.06/1400-1545/ID7_Minghong_f...

China: National Medium-and Long-Term (2006-2020) Program Outline for Scientific and Technological Development

Designated “energy” as the No. 1 area that “needs urgent S&T support”. The document mapped out a host of government-supported plans covering key fields of study, cutting-edge technologies, big special programs, as well as basic research.

Date Implemented: 2006

Status: In Force; Framework Policy

China: 11th Five-Year Plan

The programming period is divided into the Eleventh Five Year Plan period running to 2010 and the period from 2010 to 2020. The energy conservation objectives and the focus of development by 2010 are essentially planned, whereas the objectives stated for 2020 are proposed. In its “alternative oil strategy,” which is part of the Five-Year Plan, Beijing has called for a doubling in renewable energy generation to 15% of the country’s needs by 2020, including major increases in wind power and biomass.