South Africa: State Utility Offers Energy Audits to Reduce Peak Load

South Africa: State Utility Distributes Free and Subsidized CFLs

South Africa: Energy Efficiency Strategy

South Africa: Rural Transport Strategy

This policy aims to improve public transport services in rural areas and to provide rural populations with roads and access lanes to facilitate inter-village/farm transport options.

Date Implemented: 2003

Status: In Force; Government Initiative

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South Africa: The White Paper on Integrated Pollution and Waste Management

This policy represents a paradigm shift in South African Policy. Rather than focusing on impact management and remedial solutions to the problem of pollution, it centers on waste prevention.

Date Implemented: 2000

Status: In Force

References: National Communication to the UNFCCC, 2000

South Africa: The White Paper on National Transport Policy

South Africa: Clean Commute project

The project promotes energy conservation options such as pooling schemes for cars and vans, flexible work hours and telecommuting to reduce the numbers of single occupancy vehicles on the roads. A business plan is also being developed for the establishment of a Commuter Information Centre.

Status: Voluntary

South Africa: Moving South Africa Project/The Moving South Africa Action Agenda

South Africa: National Land Transport Transition Act

This Act describes the measures required to transform and restructure the land transport system. Priority to public transport services over private by ensuring adequate public transport services and applying demand-management strategies to discourage private transport.  It also advocates conducting public awareness programs to foster energy awareness in the users of land transport systems.

Date Implemented: 2000

Indonesia: Government Regulation No. 03/2005, Regulation on Electricity Supply and Utilization

Regulate the supply and utilization of electricity; priority is to be given to the use of local sources of energy with the mandatory prioritizing of renewable sources of energy for power generation without bidding process. It is not clear how this prioritazing will be effected.

Date Implemented: 2005

Status: In Force; Framework Policy