Love The Earth


Do you know what kind of impact lighting has on the earth? Let’s take a quick look at the numbers

  • In the United States, lighting accounts for 12% of all residential energy consumption and 25% of all commercial energy consumption. (source).
  • As of 2007, all the electricity used to produce light also produced 1.9 billion tons of carbon dioxide, about 8% of the total volume of CO2 produced every year.
    • 。1.9 billion tons of CO2 takes the entire Amazon rainforest 1 year to absorb. (source)
    • 。It is also equivalent to the entire CO2 output of all the coal power plants in the United States (source)
    • 。CO2 is one of the major contributors to the greenhouse effect, a natural phenomenon that helps Earth maintain the right temperatures for humans and all other life to exist. The massive amounts of manmade CO2 released into the atmosphere, however, increase the greenhouse effect, which in turn leads to global warming, melting glaciers, and rising sea levels, threatening the livelihoods of millions of people around the world.
  • Reducing energy consumption in lighting would have a significant impact on slowing down global warming.

  • Countries around the world have already begun taking action

    • 。Australia, the EU have already announced bans on incandescent bulbs that will kick in over the next three years.1
    • 。The Chinese government will subsidize enterprises to replace 150 million bulbs with high efficiency lighting solutions, saving 29 billion kW and reducing CO2 emissions by 29 million tons annually.2
    • 。The HKSAR government also has plans to upgrade to energy efficient lighting as the old incandescent bulbs are depleted.3


  • 1 Australia and Canada bans:(source1);EU ban:(source2)
  • 2 EU ban:(source)
  • 3 HK Government Information Services Department:(source1;source2)