CEM: Super-efficient Equipment and Appliance Deployment Initiative

The Super-efficient Equipment and Appliance Deployment (SEAD) Initiative is a voluntary collaboration between 21 member governments to address urgent global energy challenges and promote the manufacture, purchase, and use of energy-efficient appliances, lighting, and equipment worldwide. The SEAD Initiative fosters information exchange on policies and activities, allowing participants to take advantage of best practices and lessons learned by other countries, and identify opportunities for bilateral and multilateral cooperation.

Activity period	2009–2023
Last CoAct update	2025
Web URL	https://www.cleanenergyministerial.org/initiatives-campaigns/super-efficient-equipment-and-deployment-sead-initiative/?_years=2021
Output effectiveness	0.49
Accountability Index	0.74
Inclusiveness Index	0.47
Capacity Index	0.44
Num. actors	32
Functions	Knowledge production, Knowledge dissemination, Technical implementation, Institutional capacity building, Standards and norms, Campaigning, Training, Policy planning
SDGs
Themes	energy
Policy focus	Mainly mitigation
Sectors	Manufacturing
Implementation countries	Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Cabo Verde, Chile, China, Congo (the Democratic Republic of the), Germany, India, Indonesia, Korea (the Republic of), Mexico, Nigeria, Russian Federation (the), Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sweden, United Arab Emirates (the), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland (the), United States of America (the), Viet Nam

Target	Target type
To double the energy efficiency of four key products by 2030	Energy efficiency target
In the communique the G7 endorsed the SEAD goal of doubling the efficiency of four key energy-using products sold globally by 2030: lighting, residential cooling, residential refrigeration and industrial electric motor systems	Renewable energy target

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