EFFICIENT ELECTRICAL END-USE TECHNOLOGIES FOR MITIGATING GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS IN AFRICA

International concern about the impacts of global warming has resulted in cooperative activity among developed and developing nations to add ress the issue. Already, developed countries have agreed to reduce car bon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. At the United N ations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), developed countr ies agreed to meet the incremental costs of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases. One possible avenue for effecting the provisions of the FCCC is joint implementation (JI) projects involving developed and developing countries. This article looks at a sample of African count ries that are at different levels of development. It identifies resour ce options that, when used in an integrated resource planning contact, prove to be cost effective as well as environmentally benign. II inve stigates these options, particularly energy efficient appliances and c ompact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) in terms of their effects on the plann ing and operations of electric utilities and on their emission of glob al warming gases. The authors hope that the article will be helpful in developing criteria for selecting and prioritizing JI projects. It fo cuses on Africa because it appears that, unlike Asia and Latin America , the least amount of information has been published for this continen t in general.