Energy indicators for sustainable development

Ivan Vera and Lucille Langlois

Energy, 2007, vol. 32, issue 6, 875-882

Abstract: Energy is an essential factor in overall efforts to achieve sustainable development. Countries striving to this end are seeking to reassess their energy systems with a view toward planning energy programmes and strategies in line with sustainable development goals and objectives. This paper summarizes the outcome of an international partnership initiative on indicators for sustainable energy development that aims to provide an analytical tool for assessing current energy production and use patterns at a national level. The proposed set of energy indicators represents a first step of a consensus reached on this subject by five international agencies—two from the United Nations system (the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the International Atomic Energy Agency), two from the European Union (Eurostat and the European Environment Agency) and one from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (the International Energy Agency). Energy and environmental experts including statisticians, analysts, policy makers and academics have started to implement general guidelines and methodologies in the development of national energy indicators for use in their efforts to monitor the effects of energy policies on the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.

Keywords: Sustainable development; Energy indicators; Energy use; Energy intensities; Energy accessibility; Environmental impacts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2006.08.006

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