Sector Study on Environment Services: Energy Efficiency Business

Project Name

Sector Study on Environment Services: Energy Efficiency Business

Name of Client

APEC Secretariat

Country

APEC members

Project Location within country

Vietnam

Source of Financing

APEC Secretariat

Length of Consultancy Assignment

Start Date

3^rd April 2017

Completion Date

On-going

Detailed Narrative Description of Project:
The project aims to build and enhance understanding of the wider range of services in environmental industries/businesses among APEC economics with a view to identifying key challenges. The study is expected to implement phase 1 of the Environmental Service Action Plan (ESAP), and to contribute to subsequent works of the action plan.

Detailed Description of Actual Service Provided by your Firm:

1. Presentation on the energy efficiency sector at the APEC workshop on environmental services in Hanoi, Vietnam on 11 May 2017, which should include sector characteristics, major trends (e.g. in demand and technology), major players, challenges and opportunities faced by the sector, etc.
2. Draft Report of the sector study including topics as in a) above; detail examples of business models in the sector; specific services used in the business models; challenges faced by businesses with respect to government regulations (i.e., regulations in general, as well as in specific services that the sector heavily relies on) in the domestic economy and in different jurisdictions where they operate.
3. Final Report which should have addressed all (additional) comments received from the PSU as well as from APEC economies and/or other reviewers.