G REEN E CONOMY IN THE K YRGYZ R EPUBLIC IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Nurzat Abdrasulova, Director Public Environment Fund “UNISON”

Project of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) ( ): “THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN BUILDINGS TOWARDS THE EPBD (the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive)” supported by THE EBRD SHAREHOLDER SPECIAL FUND

T HE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY (EE) IN BUILDINGS [1] The Law No 137 dated 26 July 2011 "On the energy efficiency in buildings"; Decree of the Government of KR No 531 dated August 2, 2012: Regulation for energy certification of buildings; Regulation for regular inspections of boilers, heating systems and hot water supply.

F OLLOWING THE A CT ( ENACTED BY O RDER № 143 OF THE S TATE C ONSTRUCTION C OMMITTEE, M AY 28, 2013) THE FOLLOWING BUILDING REGULATIONS WERE PUT INTO OPERATION : 1. SNIP 23-01:2013 "Building Heat Engineering (Thermal Protection of Buildings)", 2. SP "Design for Thermal Protection of Buildings",

3. Indicators calculation method for specifying the energy efficiency of buildings and the energy efficiency category for energy certification of buildings; 4. Guidelines for regular monitoring of the energy efficiency of boilers, heating systems in buildings and hot water supply; 5. Guidelines concerning the supplement with calculations for energy certification of buildings (based on Microsoft Excel);

The framework Components of KyrSEFF: Credit line Consulting services Bonuses Subproject Implementation Group Implementation support EU Investment Program for Central Asia Bonus for project administration and implementation Investment grants Support of clients 6 KyrSEFF - Kyrgyz Sustainable Energy Financing Facility Banks-Partners

KYRSEFF PROGRESS KyrSEFF - Kyrgyz Sustainable Energy Financing Facility 7 Project start, April 2013 Business loans USD 6.3 M as of April 2014 Residential loans USD 1.4 M

RESIDENTIAL SECTOR STATISTICS KyrSEFF - Kyrgyz Sustainable Energy Financing Facility 8 28% 60% 2% 10% Number of Projects136 Credit amount, USD 1,414,092 Energy Conservation kWh / year 5, 881,000 Reducing emissions SO2 tons/year 3,686

BUSINESS SECTOR STATISTICS KyrSEFF - Kyrgyz Sustainable Energy Financing Facility 9 Number of Projects 1717 Credit amount, USD6,356, 697 Energy Conservation kWh / year 23,023,000 Reducing emissions SO2 tons/year 6 441

N EW APPROACHES

C ONCLUSIONS It is important to encourage the private sector, business and local financial institutions like activity at the political level concerning public institutions and civil society Green Loans available with incentive grants to the private sector, businesses and municipalities Civil society organizations have their expertise on various sustainable development issues (analytics, lawmaking, international processes and communities’ mobilization) as well as the positive experience of cooperation between CSOs and governmental agencies The institutional support of thematic networks for promoting sustainable development and effective implementing of projects, as well as improving their monitoring has to be provided