15-16 April 2013, RCREEE in close co-ordination with International Energy Agency (IEA)and League of Arab States (LAS) with financial support from European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)organized” The Energy Efficiency Policies Dialogue Workshop for the SEMED/Arab Region”. The workshop was held in at the Crown Plaza in Amman Under the patronage of His Excellency Malek Kabariti, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Jordan.  35 regional and international experts participated in the policy dialogue including representatives from 10 Arab States.  The participants contributed with updates on regional and national EE policies, and produced new sectoral EE policy recommendations fine-tuned to the SEMED-Arab region, building on the International Energy Agency (IEA) global 25 Energy Efficiency Policy Recommendations.

 Documents and Presentations

• Workshop Agenda

Session 2:  Progress on Developing national Energy Efficiency policies in SEMED/Arab countries

• National Energy Efficiency Strategy in Industrial Sector in Tunisia : Policy, Instruments & Achievments
  Authored and/or Presented by: Kawther Lihidheb, Industrial Energy Efficiency Department– ANME
• Outlook for scaling-up energy efficiency in Morocco
  Authored and/or Presented by: Dr.  Abdelmourhit Lahbabi, Director, ADS Maroc
• Results of Lebanon’s National Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Action (NEEREA)
  Authored and/or Presented by:Pierre El Khoury, Director- Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation (LCEC)
• Towards a More Sustainable Energy Economy
  Authored and/or Presented by: Dr. Ibrahim Yassin,Project Manager,Improving Energy Efficiency for Lighting & Building Appliances GEF/UNDP project
• Energy Efficiency Program for the State of Kuwait
  Authored and/or Presented by: Dr. Ahmad Al-Mulla, Associate Research Scientist, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.

• The IEA’s 25 Energy Efficiency Policy Recommendations
  Authored and/or Presented by: Sara Bryan Pasquier,Programme Manager, Energy Efficiency International Energy Agency
• A world wide perspective: The WEC energy efficiency 2012-13 survey
  Authored and/or Presented by: Dr.Didier Bosseboeuf, WEC/MEDENER