Climate change
Recognizing that energy efficiency is one essential answer to climate change, we have made a serious commitment to develop, promote and market more energy-efficient solutions for people in all markets. We meet this challenge with our Green Products and Green Innovations and by inspiring individuals to make simple changes that can have profound results. We seek to facilitate new solutions to drive responsible energy practices and have long focused on the energy efficiency of our products and production processes.   To combat climate change, Philips calls upon mayors and municipal leaders to accelerate sustainability in infrastructure projects and building renovation. We believe there is opportunity for a robust and comprehensive follow-up agreement to the Kyoto Treaty, with existing technology solutions offering an achievable path to reducing harmful emissions. At the UN climate conference in New York, Philips CEO Gerard Kleisterlee said: “If an ambitious and effective global climate change program can be agreed, it will create the conditions for transformational change of our world economy and deliver the signals that companies need to speed up investment of billions of dollars in energy-efficient products, services, technologies and infrastructure such as LED lighting technology.” We put weight behind this appeal by partnering with the World Green Building Council, committing to improving the energy efficiency of cities by 40% in the next 10 years. Transforming the global marketAlong with OSRAM we are participating in a global initiative to accelerate the uptake of low-energy light bulbs and efficient lighting systems by the Global Environment Facility and the United Nations Environment Programme. The aim is to reduce the bills of electricity consumers in developing economies while delivering cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases. The goal is also to replace fuel-based lighting systems, such as kerosene, which are linked with health-hazardous indoor air pollution. Breakthrough ideaWe submitted the first entry in the US Department of Energy’s L Prize competition, which seeks high-quality, high-efficiency solid-state lighting products to replace the 60W incandescent light bulb. Named one of the “best inventions of 2009” by TIME Magazine, our LED bulb emits the same amount of light as its incandescent equivalent but uses less than 10W and lasts for 25,000 hours – or 25 times as long.
  Philips is working to help the Indonesian government meet its goal to reduce global warming caused by excessive energy consumption. With economic growth of 5-6% annually, Indonesia faces the challenge of fast-rising domestic energy demand with declining oil and gas production. Encouraging the simple switch to energy-efficient lighting can help ease that pressure, particularly in the country’s kampongs, villages with native houses. Knowing that 60% of the people in the world’s fourth most populous nation live in kampongs where inefficient costly-to-operate traditional lighting is still used, we launched the Philips Bright Energy Saving Kampong program. A helping handOur employees volunteer to explain the advantages of energy-efficient lighting: brighter light, enhanced safety, and reduced electricity bills and CO2 emissions. During 2009 we educated villagers in 50 kampongs across Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan and Sulawesi to become Bright Energy Saving Kampongs. We also provided 1,000 energy-saving lamps for each village and 100 fluorescent lamps for public facilities like roads, schools and town halls, and offered support during the switchover. Simply a successSukamaju village is just one kampong enjoying the benefits of this program. One of those benefits is that the new brighter lighting is safer for midwives who no longer have to travel in the dark. Plus, electricity bills dropped a hefty 33%.
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