Building Energy Efficiency

The Building Energy Efficiency (BEE) Community of Practice (CoP) is an initiative of the Asia LEDS Partnership in collaboration with the Building Efficiency Accelerator, a public-private collaboration under the Sustainable Energy for ALL (SE4ALL) initiative of the United Nations. The BEE Community of Practice is envisaged to be an interactive network of experts and practitioners in building energy efficiency that come together for peer learning and knowledge sharing.

The BEE CoP is expected to have participants from city, provincial and national government agencies, technical institutions, private firms, NGOs and/or international organizations that are working on furthering building efficiency implementation, from across the Asia region.

The BEE CoP will focus on building energy efficiency activities with the intent to capture and support the needs of sub-national governments on uptake of building energy efficiency plans. Relevant opportunities for enabling action by the national government will also be identified for promotion of building energy efficiency at the national level. In the long run, the CoP will also focus on sustainable energy for buildings, including demand and supply.

Priority topics of the BEE CoP for learning and technical collaboration will be Policies and measures, Financial mechanisms and Technologies pertaining to Building Energy Efficiency.

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For more information see Building Energy Efficiency CoP concept note

Participating cities will also have the opportunity to join the BEA initiative and contribute to the BEA’s efforts to double the rate of energy efficiency improvements in the building sector by 2030. Cities signing up to the BEA can avail tools, resources, and support from the BEA partnership to help guide adoption building efficiency policy, implementation of pilot programs, and tracking and reporting of progress.

The BEE CoP is designed to be demand driven and will conduct the following activities, depending on members’ needs:

• Regional peer learning and training workshops
• Web seminars and online, moderated exchange sessions on specific topics
• Sharing of tools, methods and best practice cases
• Identification and facilitation of no-cost expert and peer advisory support
• Cross city and country collaboration on common measures

The Building Energy Efficiency CoP consists of over 100+ participants from 20 countries that includes India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines.

What is expected from participants?

Participants are expected to commit to sharing knowledge and experiences, to applying learning and resources, and to providing feedback on results achieved from engagement in the Community of Practice.
Participants will actively engage in the discussions and come prepared to share their country’s experience with Building Energy Efficiency during peer learning activities
When appropriate, it is encouraged that participants recruit their peers to participate to learn and share information
It is encouraged that participants share the learning and materials from this Community of Practice with their peers
It is expected that participants will share with the ALP community how they are applying the learning from participation

Session 1: Enabling Building Efficiency Uptake through Policy Actions

The first interactive online session of the Building Energy Efficiency (BEE) Community of Practice (CoP) will introduce participants to policy options and approaches that can help to tap into efficiency opportunities across building typologies. Government representatives and experts from India and Malaysia will share experiences and insights from policies and programs to scale up building efficiency, including key aspects for effective design, implementation and compliance of policy actions to overcome on-ground barriers.

Location: Gotowebinar
Date: December 17, 2019

Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Bangkok time/ 9:00 am – 11:00 am New Delhi time