Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI)

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General

Name of initiative "Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI)"
LPAA initiative Yes
NAZCA Initiative Yes
Website address http://www.globalfueleconomy.org
Related initiatives
Starting year 2009
End year
Secretariat Sheila Watson, Executive Secretary, GFEI , 60 Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DS, United Kingdom, e-mail: info@globalfueleconomy.org ; s.watson@fiafoundation.org, Phone: 0207 7475183
Organisational structure GFEI is an active partnership between the 6 lead organisations. All decisions over the direction of the initiative are taken jointly, and work is shared between partners across the 3 core GFEI activities of research, capacity-building and advocacy. The initiative benefits from the engagement of a contact group of key stakeholders and an advisory panel of experts. The secretariat is housed at FIA Foundation. Resources come mainly from EC, GEF and FIA Foundation.
Geographical coverage Global, North America, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and The Caribbean, Africa, Western Europe, Eastern Europe
Name of lead organisation FIA Foundation (hosts secretariat)
Type of lead organisation NGO/Civil Society
Location/Nationality of lead organisation United Kingdom

Description

Description GFEI is a partnership between 6 organisations that promote further research, discussion and action to improve fuel economy worldwide. In the longer term they want to see real improvements in the fuel economy capacity of the global car fleet. GFEI's core activities are data development and analysis of fuel economy potentials, support for national and regional policy-making efforts and outreach and awareness raising to stakeholders (e.g. vehicle manufacturers).
Objectives Secure real improvements in fuel economy, and the maximum deployment of existing fuel economy technologies in vehicles across the world. The initiative has a target of improving average fuel economy of 50% worldwide by 2050. The target for 2020 is a 30% average fuel economy improvement for all new cars in OECD countries
Activities - Data development and analysis of fuel economy potentials by country and region;

- Support for national and regional policy-making efforts; - Outreach and awareness raising to stakeholders (e.g. vehicle manufacturers); GFEI is continuing its capacity building support to countries to develop fuel economy policies. GFEI has continued to raise global awareness about the benefits of fuel economy in 2016, by working closely with governments and policy makers and showcasing our work at major conferences, such as TRB in Washington DC, ITF in Leipzig, Automotive megatrends in Detroit, Better Air Quality in South Korea, and SIMEA in Sao Paolo. GFEI partners provide expert guidance and training, including at the GFEI global training and networking event in Paris in June, which involved 70 participants from 50 countries, as well as thorough regional and in-country training and policy development support. GFEI's plans for 2017 include setting out the potential fuel economy benefits for HDVs and the transition to EVs.

One or two success stories achieved 1) GFEI has been working with Mauritius since 2010. Since then, Mauritius have introduced a series of measures to improve fuel economy, including a feebate scheme which incentivised vehicles with lower emissions. These incentives resulted in an immediate shift to cleaner and more efficient cars. Fuel economy improved from an average of 7 L/100km in 2005 to 6.6 L/100km in 2013 and 5.8 L/100km in 2014. GFEI is currently working with Mauritius to monitor the ongoing impact, propose additional policy measures for light and heavy duty vehicles and replicate the scheme in the region. This year the government replaced the feebate tax system with a new tax structure to further encourage importation of electric and more efficient vehicles. Lessons learned from Mauritius are used in almost all other GFEI country projects.

2) The United Arab Emirates have formally announced plans for a new fuel economy standard. The proposals are based on the US CAFE standards. When adopted by the UAE Cabinet, the proposed standard has the potential to deliver annual fuel savings to UAE households worth Dh9.5 billion ($2.6 billion), representing carbon savings equivalent to removing 4.5 million cars from the UAE’s roads by 2035. GFEI partners provided technical support to the development of the vehicle fleet baseline and analysis for the country in 2015.

Monitoring and Impacts

Function of initiative Technical dialogue, Capacity building, Political dialogue, Implementation
Activity of initiative Knowledge production and innovation, Training and education, Awareness raising and outreach, Knowledge dissemination and exchange, Goal setting (ex-ante)
Indicators
Goals
Comments on indicators and goals
How will goals be achieved
Have you changed or strenghtened your goals
Progress towards the goals GFEI started in 2009 with four pilot countries. By COP21, the number had reached 26. At COP21 GFEI was able to announce the engagement of a further 40 new countries.

Throughout 2016 GFEI has begun to support some of the countries which joined our work at COP21, whilst also continuing to highlight the importance of fuel economy for tackling climate change. The issues which GFEI addresses have been presented to key audiences at major conferences in Australia, the US, Germany, Brazil, the UK and Korea, as well as many regional and in-country workshops and training events.

The Global Fuel Economy Initiative held its largest ever global training and networking event in Paris on 9-10th June 2016. Over 70 participants attended from around fifty countries including many new countries that made commitments to improving fuel economy as part of the COP21 climate agreement. The event was hugely successful and an unrivalled opportunity for participants to learn from GFEI world-leading experts, as well as exchange lessons learned and build momentum to implement new fuel economy policies. The event brought together participants from all around the world, including G20 countries such as Canada, France, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia, as well as developing countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Costa Rica, Panama, Malaysia and Vietnam. The training included expert input and analysis on a range of topics, including an introduction to fuel economy concepts, in-depth training on fuel economy trends and developing country baselines to assess progress and inform cost-benefit analysis of different options.

GFEI has held workshops this year in Kenya, South Africa, Botswana, Malaysia, the Philippines, Peru, Jamaica, Macedonia with events planned in Liberia, Ghana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi amongst others.

How are you tracking progress of your initiative GFEI tracks progress on average fuel economy globally by publishing a monitoring report every 2 years which is produced by the IEA. The latest one (Working Paper 15) is available here: http://www.globalfueleconomy.org/data-and-research/publications/gfei-cop22-update

In addition, we also track the progress of our country support, as we provide support for in-country workshops, baseline studies and policy options for government. We have produced a Global Fuel Economy: COP22 update that summarizes this progress.

The initiative has introduced detailed reporting requirements in contracts as the first step to establish impact assessment and progress monitoring system. In addition to the global networking event, there have been national or regional workshops in Kenya, Botswana, Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Peru, Jamaica, Macedonia and Ukraine, with more planned. GFEI has also been providing support to Turkey and South Africa.

Available reporting GFEI’s latest data and analysis is available here: http://www.globalfueleconomy.org/data-and-research.

GFEI has continued its series of working papers, publishing new data (Working Paper 12) on average fuel economy globally which includes in-depth analysis for major markets. It has also published a new analysis of potential growth in EVs (Working Paper 13), and a report on fuel economy in HDVs (Working Paper 14), as well as an updated tracking report for the decade 2005-2015 (Working Paper 15).

Participants

Participants Number Names
Members 0  
Companies 0
Business organisations 0
Research and educational organisations 0
Non-governmental organisations 0
National states 0
Governmental actors 0
Regional / state / county actors 0
City / municipal actors 0
Intergovernmental organisations 0
Financial Institutions 0
Faith based organisations 0
Other members 0
Supporting partners 0
Number of members in the years
2015
25
2019
89
Have only national states as participators No


Theme

Transport Agriculture Forestry Business Financial institutions Buildings Industry Waste Cities and subnational governments Short Term Pollutants International maritime transport Energy Supply Fluorinated gases Energy efficiency Renewable energy Supply chain emission reductions Adaptation Other Resilience Innovation Energy Access and Efficiency Private Finance
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Last update: 3 December 2021 13:15:30

Not only have national states as participators