In response to global warming, the manufacture and sales of incandescent light bulbs finally ceased

Previously at GIGAZINEAs part of global warming countermeasures, Australia announced that it will abolish incandescent light bulbsAccording to the report by Kyodo News Agency, finally it seems that manufacturing and sales of incandescent light bulbs in Japan have been terminated.

Details are as below.
To stop manufacturing incandescent light bulb To discontinue the production of incandescent light bulb Switch to fluorescent light by measures against global warming

According to this article, as a part of global warming countermeasures, incandescent light bulbs used in the lighting of homes and offices have poor energy use efficiency despite the large power consumption, the government is responsible for manufacturing and selling domestically Within a few years, to promote switching to a long-lasting compact fluorescent light bulb.

Although it is said that the period of change will be compiled in the future, there are also plans to say "within three years". This is because the commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, which mandates reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, started from next year, it seems that it is aiming at strengthening countermeasures of households and office departments where emissions increase rapidly.

By the way, when all households switch to bulb type fluorescent lights, the gas reduction effect seems to be about 2 million tons, which is 1.3% of household emissions, but the price of compact fluorescent bulbs used at home is incandescent bulbs It is higher than 10 times higher than that, which means that there is a possibility of consumer rebound.

Is it possible that prices of bulb-type fluorescent lamps will fall as demand increases?