Towards sustainable, Smart Communities G7 Summit, 26-26 May 2017 in Taormina, Italy   As world leaders gather for the annual G7 meeting, taking place in Taormina, Italy from 26 to 27 May 2017, the Climate Change – The New Economy magazine , the official G7 summit magazine, has pu

Electricity access – an agent of economic growth ¦ Worldwide 1,3 billion people don’t have any access to electricity and 2,7 billion people have very limited access. In Africa, more than 600 million people, that is, two out of three Africans lack access to electricity. The UN recogniz

COP22 brings a focus on the vital importance that increased energy efficiency holds for climate change mitigation. The IEC is working behind the scenes helping to increase energy efficiency and reduce the amount of energy that is lost in everyday consumption. Energy efficient applianc

As world leaders meet for COP22, in Marrakech, Morocco from November 7 to 18, 2016, it is timely to recall the words of the IEA (International Energy Agency): “Energy efficiency is the one energy resource all countries possess in abundance.” In its Energy Efficiency Market Report 2016

Energy, and especially electricity, is the golden thread that impacts most of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and beyond that, the development of every nation and economy. IEC work directly impacts 12 of the 17 SDGs. It provides the technical foundation for the whole energ

The Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, Korea, aims to lead global low carbon green growth. By 2030, the island is planning to put in place a carbon-free infrastructure comprising a Smart Grid, broad electric vehicle (EV) network, renewable energy generation and more. The IEC (Inter

IEC and Smart Energy ¦ Building a Smart City is highly complex. Every city faces its own challenges and requires its own mix of solutions. However, there is one common denominator that greatly simplifies this task: International Standards. International energy-related Standards can co

World Smart City community  ¦ 18 January: a new online community that will gather all relevant city stakeholders globally and engage them in value-add discussions and high-level networking has been launched. The platform is tailored to city planners, architects, consultants, utilities

Increasing the efficiency on how energy is generated and then used, should not remain idle talk. And while measuring is important to know where to improve, factual changes on the ground will make all the difference. Moderated by Richard Schomberg, Chair of Systems Committee (SyC) Smar

As #COP21, the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, enters its final week, pollution has emerged as another major and currently more immediate source of concern as two large Asian cities reported dangerously high levels of pollution. These incidents highlighted the urgent need to turn away