Green initiatives: The Mumbai Energy Alliance (MEA), a partnership between local government and non-governmental organisations, promotes energy efficiency programmes in the Greater Mumbai region. Since 2008 the MEA has developed a pipeline of 25 projects that apply innovative and energy-saving technology in lighting, heating and cooling applications for residential, commercial, municipal buildings and smallscale industries. The combined projects, over a ten-year period, are targeted to make energy savings of 1,900 million kilowatt-hours and reduce CO2 emissions by 13 million tonnes.