A warmer climate for energy efficiency is building up in the Pacific region

The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate was announced some months ago as a co-operation between the U.S., Australia, The Republic of Korea, Japan, India and China to foster climate-friendly technologies. They have now had a meeting in Sydney and made public a report of what impact such collaboration could bring and a workplan for eight different task-forces, most of them related to energy supply, but also some for key-industry areas such as steel, aluminium, cement, buildings and appliances. Given that the partnership involves some of the fast-growing markets and that, according to press, the allocation of resources could be substantial (50 MUSD from the U.S. and 100 MAUD from Australia) this could be another boost-action for energy efficiency applications.