Subject(s): Energy conservation -- Energy consumption -- End use energy efficiency in Asia and the pacific : potential for and challenges to improvement -- Situation analysis of end use energy efficiency : Socio economic and environmental situation, energy and sustainable development, end use energy efficiency -- Potential and need for improving end use energy efficiency : Financial and energy savings, Existing national regulations and policies -- Policy options for improving end use efficiency : industrial sector , Transport sector, Construction and building sector, Electronic appliances in domestic and other sectors, Putting policies into action -- Improving end-use energy efficiency in the industrial sector -- Industrial energy consumption in developing countries, Greenhouse gas emissions, Opportunities for improving energy efficiency in the industrial sector -- Policy options : Institutional support, legislative support, financial support -- Case studies and country experience : Canadian industry program for energy conservation, Danish agreement on industrial energy efficiency, Long-term agreement on energy efficiency in Netherlands, Norwegian industrial energy efficiency network, Industrial energy efficiency improvement potential in Bangladesh, an energy-deficit developing country, Experience of the Islamic republic of Iran an energy -surplus developing country -- Improving end-use energy efficiency in the road transport sector - republic of Korea -- Improving end-use energy efficiency in the construction and building sector -- Policy options : barriers to energy efficiency, policy options for overcoming barriers to energy efficiency -- Case studies and country experience , Observations - Strategy to implement energy efficiency policy options, Policy and strategy options -- Improving the end use energy efficiency of electrical appliances -- Type of energy efficiency policies : Energy audit, Information campaigns, minimum energy performance standards, Equipment rebate programmes, Energy labels, low-interest loan programmes, Tax and fiscal incentives, Energy service companies , Apex body -- MEPS and energy labels, Growth of MEPS and energy labelling programmes internationally -- Case studies and country experience : Selection of countries , European union - development of energy labelling and MEPS for appliances, United states - development of standards and labelling, China- development of energy conservation certification and labelling schemes -- Islamic republic of Iran - energy labelling initiative in an energy surplus nation, Republic of Korea - an effective MEPS and labelling programme, Thailand - an effective voluntary labelling programme leads the way to standards, APEC's energy standards information system - a new tool for tracking end use standards and labels -- Conclusions and recommendations concerning national implementation by countries of the region and international organizations