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Global Lighting Challenge: A Clean Energy Ministerial Campaign

The Global Lighting Challenge is a race to reach cumulative global sales of 10 billion high- efficiency, high-quality, and affordable advanced lighting products, such as light-emitting diode (LED) lamps. This race will showcase the ways businesses, governments, and other public-sector leaders are taking action to accelerate this transition. Representatives from 12 countries and the European Commission endorsed the launch of the Challenge at the Sixth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM6) in May 2015. The Global Lighting Challenge is now seeking commitments from public- and private-sector leaders to speed us toward the 10 billion goal. (Note: Initiative ended in 2018)

Activity period 2015–2018
Last CoAct update 2023
Web URL https://www.globallightingchallenge.org
Output effectiveness
0.25
Accountability Index
0.21
Inclusiveness Index
0.62
Num. actors 31
Functions Technical implementation, Standards and norms, Campaigning, Participatory management, Commercial product / service
SDGs 7 9 11 13 17
Themes energy
Policy focus Mainly mitigation
Sectors Other service activities
Implementation countries Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Korea (the Republic of), Mexico, Russian Federation (the), South Africa, Sweden, United Arab Emirates (the), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland (the), United States of America (the)
Target Target type
Twelve Chinese solid-state lighting companies committed to deploy 3.29 billion LED Lamps and 5.77 million LED Street Lights by the end of 2018 Energy efficiency target
10 billion high efficiency, high quality lighting products Economic target