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Association of enterprises focussing on environmental and energy efficiency issues across sectors have recently joint the floor of energy efficiency policy. This article gives an overview of such associations in Germany, of their objectives and activities. It elaborates perspectives on their future role in promoting the rational use of energy and resources.

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Panels of the eceee 1999 Summer Study

Panel 1: Policy (incentives, normative measures, policy mixes to achive CO_2 reduction)

Panel 2: Technologies and Products (innovation, marketing, market transformation)

Panel 3: Dynamics of Consumption (social and cultural perspectives, actors and their interactions)

Panel 4: Environmental Perspective (externalities and life cycle approaches, local and global impacts and incentatives)

Panel 5: Land use,Transportation and infrastructure (urban and regional planning, approaches to change in well entrenched systems)