Countries worldwide have begun to realise the need for carbon reduction, and some have responded actively to combat the issue.

　　1. The EU has banned the sale of 100-wattage incandescent bulbs since September 2009, and gradually phased out the bulb in other wattages in 2012*

　　2. With the support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), fourteen developing countries are to come up with plans to phase out incandescent lamps in July 2012 ,the countries are Uruguay, Chile, Belize, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Morocco, Jordan, the Philippines and Tunisia

　　3. Korea is planning to ban the use of incandescent bulbs in 2013

　　4. The federal government in Canada announced it would ban the sale of incandescent bulbs in 2012

　　5. Taiwan started to stop the production of incandescent bulbs in 2010, and targets to ban it completely in 2012

　　6. China's government is planning to ban incandescent bulbs in 2018

　　7. In 2012, Japan’s government banned the sale of high-energy incandescent bulbs and planned to phase out all incandescent bulbs

　　8. The United States has started to phase out 100-wattage incandescent bulbs in 2012, and it would expand the range to other wattages in 2014

　　9. The federal government in Canada announced it would ban the sale of incandescent bulbs in 2012

　　10. The United Kingdom declared it would replace incandescent bulbs with energy saving lamps in 2011

　　11. Australia declared that it would phase out incandescent light bulbs gradually before 2010, and replace them with energy saving lamps

　　12. Ireland stopped using incandescent bulbs in January 2009, making it the first country to implement such a ban