First national clean project registered at UN

Possibility of selling carbon credits

The Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation (LCEC), a national organization affiliated with the Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW), announced that the ‘Lebanese CFL Replacement Project’ has been registered at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC). The UNFCC includes commitments from governments around the world to decrease gas emissions through national initiatives.

The Lebanese CFL Replacement Project, was introduced by the MoEW in 2010 under the scope of ‘clean mechanism development’ with a budget of $7 million. It involved delivering three million energy-saving CFL lamps to one million residences distributed across the country. The project was able to save up to 60 giga-watts per year.

Through the project's registration at the UN, the LCEC will be able to sell the carbon credits it saved in emissions on the carbon trading market. In that market, polluters can buy carbon credits from reducers, in this case, the LCEC.

The project will be implemented in partnership with EDF Trading, a U.S.-based wholesale energy trader.


Reported by Nader Houella