UNEP & Integrated Urban Systems Approach

This presentation discussed the new public-private partnership on Urban System Integration which seeks to support cities in developing integrated approaches to infrastructure planning and cross-sectoral policies and identifying key enabling technologies that will facilitate connections and interactions across the building, energy, transportation, wastewater treatment, and waste management sectors. It also discussed the wider systems integration in district energy, use of waste heat and large scale resources, improving city-wide energy efficiency, and district cooling.

India's ESCO Business Models

This presentation discussed the work being done by India's Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE), a policy advocacy and energy efficiency market enabler which works on creating awareness about energy efficiency as a resource. It also examined the ESCO market in India, the various EE services and business models offered in India and some key barriers in scaling up the country's ESCO market.