Kuwait will be hosting the ninth session of the ESCWA Committee on Energy on 12-13 June at Regency Hotel, Kuwait. The Session will kick off on Wednesday 12 June at 10:00AM with the participation of representatives from member countries specialized in the field of Energy. Election of officers will follow in accordance with the Arabic alphabetical order employed by the United Nations, whereby Libya will assume the chairmanship of the session, Lebanon and Egypt the vice-chairmanship and Morocco the rapporteur.

The objective of this meeting is to present to the national project task force the final results of the comprehensive baseline mapping study for the energy situation of the building sector in Jordan. Members of the task force, which include representatives of relevant public & private stakeholders for the considered branches of activities, will be solicited to help in validating these final results and identifying areas requiring final revisions. The outputs of this mapping exercise shall constitute the basis for the remaining project activities and will help in defining the main axis and players for conducting the energy efficiency actions in the building sector.
The meeting will also present for discussion a methodology for periodic surveys of energy consumption patterns in the buildings' sector, based on a series of periodic surveys that the Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (STEG) has been conducting since 1989. It is proposed that the methodology will be further developed and improved, in the context of the UNDA project, to be adopted, in both Jordan and Tunisia, as a formal approach for monitoring the evolution of energy consumption in the building sector and estimating the impacts of energy efficiency programs in the sector.
This national meeting is part of the activities scheduled in the UN Development Account (UNDA) project on “Up-scaling Energy Efficiency in the residential and services sectors in the Arab Region”.