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Energy Efficiency fact cards

Energy efficiency is a key issue in the Bank’s countries of operations. All these countries exceed the EU average for energy intensity, some use almost seven times as much energy as western Europe per unit of GDP. High energy usage is partly to due to the cold climate and the needs of heavy industry but there is also a legacy of enormous reliance on inefficient Soviet-era energy systems.

This set of fact cards show the reality behind the 'burning issue' of energy efficiency in the Bank's countries of operations.

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