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Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change

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Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change

S. George Philander

Pub. date: 2008 | Online Pub. Date: April 25, 2008 | DOI: 10.4135/9781412963893 | Print ISBN: 9781412958783 | Online ISBN: 9781412963893| Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.

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Alliance to Save Energy

Luca Prono

ESTABLISHED IN 1977 , the Alliance to Save Energy (ASE) is a nonprofit coalition of business, government, environmental, and consumer leaders. The ASE supports energy efficiency as a cost-effective energy resource under existing market conditions and endorses energy-efficiency policies that reduce costs to society and individual consumers, and that limit greenhouse gas emissions and their impact on the global climate. To achieve these results, the ASE undertakes research, educational programs, and policy advocacy; plans and implements energy-efficiency projects; promotes technological innovation and collaboration; and sets up public-private partnerships, both in the United States and in other countries. The alliances mission is to promote “energy efficiency worldwide to achieve a healthier economy, a cleaner environment and greater energy security.” Its corporate statement describes the ASE as leading “worldwide energy-efficiency initiatives in research, policy advocacy, education, technology deployment, and communications that impact all sectors of the economy.” Leaders from academia, business, Republican ...

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