LED promising Ban Ki-moon calls for efficient lighting

Global efficient lighting forum yesterday (10) held in beijing. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sent a video address to the forum called for carbon reduction.

Ban Ki-moon said, efficient lighting to solve global warming is of great significance.

UNEP Asia Pacific Regional Office of the executive director Kawell Zahedi said that the promotion of efficient lighting, is of great significance for the dependence on imported fuel to generate electricity state, helps to reduce power consumption, haze and carbon emissions, reduce electricity, thereby reducing the thermal power station construction. China is a leader in the global lighting industry, with advanced technology for export, efficient lighting can accelerate the promotion of energy efficiency, so that China and other countries to achieve inclusive growth.

National Development and Reform Commission resource conservation and environmental protection division, He Bingguang told Chinese and foreign participants, ecological deterioration, environmental degradation is an important challenge facing today's society. The industrial upgrading of green lighting is of great significance to change the mode of production, to open a low-carbon lifestyle, and to achieve sustainable development.

According to reports, China is a big country in the lighting industry, 1/3 of the world's incandescent lamps and energy-saving lamps produced from China in 80%. Since 1996, Chinese by improving market standards, supporting industrial development and other measures, continue to promote the green lighting industry since 2008, promotion of energy-saving lamps 380 million, rapidly improve efficient lighting market penetration. China in 2011 launched a phased out incandescent lamp program, is the first to adopt the program of developing countries. In 2012, China set up a global efficient lighting technology cooperation center, and actively promote the development of new energy-saving technologies in developing countries.

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