The Energy Saving Trust

In 1992, the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro highlighted, for the first time, the real threat of climate change on a global scale.

The following year, the UK Government established The Energy Saving Trust and set a target for reducing UK emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, by 20 per cent of 1990 levels by 2010.

The Energy Saving Trust is a non-profit organisation, funded both by government and the private sector. We are one of the UK's leading organisations set up to address the damaging effects of climate change and we have offices in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Our aim is to cut emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) by promoting the sustainable and efficient use of energy.

Defra (Department for Eviroment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) is a UK Government Department.

The overarching challenge for Defra is to enable everyone to live within our environmental means. This is most clearly exemplified by the need to:

tackle climate change internationally and through domestic action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and secure a healthy, resilient, productive and diverse natural environment. Central to achieving these goals will be reducing the environmental impact of the lifestyles we lead, the products that the country’s economy produces and consumes, and the waste we produce. We also need to reduce the global impact of our food production and consumption, improving the contribution that a profitable and competitive farming industry in this country can make to our environment.

Lighting Industry Federation

The LIF’s primary objective is:To ensure that clients receive the quality of product and scheme design to which they are entitled and to safeguard the interests of the end user.

By promoting the availability of: Professional advice , Competence in design, Service before and after, Standards of ethical behaviour

By lobbying for:

Greater capital investment by Government to address dereliction of its lighting stock Legislative drivers to underpin product and application standards Government incentives to encourage the uptake of efficient lighting

Recolight

Recolight was established by the UK lamp industry in 2005 primarily for the purpose of operating a WEEE Compliance Scheme on behalf of Lamp Producers in the UK. Its operating model is based upon one developed by the European Lamp Companies Federation (ELC) - a European Trade Association for lamp manufacturers - although the implementation is different in each country, reflecting the different national implementations of the WEEE Directive EC2002/94.

Recolight received scheme operator approval number WEE/MP3838PR/SCH on 21st February 2007 and went live operationally on July 2nd 2007.