The Times Square Ball lit by Philips’s LED
technology turns green in support of Climate Week NYC
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), the global leader in
lighting, today, in partnership with The Climate Group, called on
every single city and utility around the world to schedule the
switch of their street lighting to LED by 2025. During the annual
Climate Week NYC proceedings in New York, Philips supported the
launch of The Climate Group’s new major global campaign – “LED =
Lower Emissions Delivered” – to encourage local governments, cities
and utilities to embrace the carbon and cost benefits of switching
to LED.
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The Times Square Ball lit by Philips's
LED technology turns green in support of Climate Week NYC. (Photo:
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“Climate Week NYC is an important milestone on the road to COP21
in Paris later this year, where world leaders will be urged to act
faster and more decisively in combating climate change,” said Eric
Rondolat, Chief Executive Officer, Philips Lighting. “The demand
for energy is increasing twice as fast as the annual rate of
improvement in energy efficiency, so more ambitious targets are
needed. For instance, simply switching conventional street lighting
to LED provides an energy saving of around 40-50 percent. If you
add connected lighting technologies, such as sensors and software
control systems, you save an additional 30 percent while giving the
community better lit, safer streets. So we definitely can meet more
ambitious targets while at the same time improving quality of
life.”
A new report, “Support The Big Switch,” published today, reveals
that major cities around the world want to upgrade to LED. It
states that while the technological barriers for switching to LED
have been overcome, cities want more support from Government and
financial institutions to refine business models and financing
options to help make the switch.
In 2013, the city of Los Angeles began the installation of
140,000 LED street lights and has already reported energy savings
of 63% and cost savings around $8.7 million in 2014. Today, with
the help of Philips, Los Angeles is the first major city globally
to renovate its LED lighting to ‘Connected lighting,’ using a
system that uses mobile and cloud-based technologies. The new
system delivers information so that cities can respond quickly to
different situations, make smarter decisions and realize new
operational efficiencies. And through connected LED lighting, the
city has the potential to realize energy savings of up to 80%.
“There is no longer any reason why the big switch to LED street
lighting shouldn’t start today, accelerating adoption in the US and
around the world,” said Mark Kenber, CEO of The Climate Group. “Our
global trials and stakeholder consultations have shown that, when
it comes to tackling climate change, LEDs are the lowest of the low
hanging fruit and easiest to implement. It’s technically proven,
commercially viable, and already resulting in major savings for
cities around the world. With the number of street lights around
the world likely to hit 350 million by 2025, local governments,
utilities and financial institutions need to work together to
ensure that all new and existing street lights are LED – or of
equivalent energy efficiency – by 2025.”
As a symbol of this collaboration and commitment and as a
visible call to action for cities around the globe, the iconic
Times Square Ball, lit by 32,256 Philips Luxeon LEDs, has been
programmed to display ongoing variations of the color green
interspersed with images of a spinning planet Earth throughout all
of Climate Week NYC.
Notes to editors
About the “Support the Switch” report: Findings in the report
are the result of a two-year consultation by The Climate Group with
cities, following The Climate Group’s global LED street-lighting
trials in 12 major cities including New York, London, Kolkata and
Sydney. The consultations were conducted in cooperation with
Philips Lighting.
About Royal Philips:
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a diversified health and
well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through
meaningful innovation in the areas of Healthcare, Consumer
Lifestyle and Lighting. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips
posted 2014 sales of EUR 21.4 billion and employs approximately
106,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100
countries. The company is a leader in cardiac care, acute care and
home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new
lighting applications, as well as male shaving and grooming and
oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at
www.philips.com/newscenter.
About Climate Week NYC
Climate Week NYC is a key event in the international calendar
that brings together leading governments, investors, businesses,
innovators and opinion formers. The Climate Group launched Climate
Week NYC in 2009, and has acted as the secretariat since its
inception. Host to more than 100 affiliate events from September
21-28, Climate Week NYC 2015 is the collaborative space for climate
events in support of the UN Summit to adopt the Post-2015
Development Agenda. The Climate Group is also hosting a Climate
Week ‘countdown’ from September 1 until the opening of the week;
during which a series of announcements, report launches and major
commitments from business and sub-national leaders will be
made.
Climate Week NYC 2015 is supported by the We Mean Business
coalition members: BSR, The B Team, CDP, Ceres, The Climate Group,
The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group and WBCSD.
ClimateWeekNYC.org | @ClimateWeekNYC | #CWNYC
About The Climate Group
The Climate Group is an award-winning, international
non-profit. Our goal is a prosperous, low carbon future. We believe
this will be achieved through a ‘clean revolution’: the rapid
scale-up of low carbon energy and technology. We work with
corporate and government partners to develop climate finance
mechanisms, business models which promote innovation, and
supportive policy frameworks. We convene leaders, share
hard evidence of successful low carbon growth, and pilot
practical solutions which can be replicated worldwide.
Since 2009, The Climate Group has been the convenor
of Climate Week NYC. In September 2014, Climate Week NYC
hosted 150 events as the collaborative space in support of the UN
Climate Summit.
Theclimategroup.org | @ClimateGroup | #CleanRevolution
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