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Introducing energy indicators

Aidan Kennedy Senior Energy Statistician IEA Energy Data Centre

Mainstreaming Energy Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Targets and Indicators into Statistical Programmes in Select African Countries Addis Ababa, June 2016

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Energy indicators: key across all dimensions of sustainable development

Sources: IEA World Energy Balances, 2015 IEA CO2 emissions from fuel combustion, 2015

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Egypt

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Electricity consumption per capita

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What energy indicators to develop and how?

Identify priority areas for action

Design optimal indicators for national policy impact assessment

Review data requirements, availability and gaps

Need to understand country-specific context and priorities

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Embedding national efforts in international framework

SE4ALL Global Tracking Framework and SDG Indicators: opportunities to strengthen statistical capacity worldwide

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To develop indicators globally: a global energy statistics community

Ongoing cooperation across international organisations to discuss priorities, metrics and methodologies

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Autonomous Agency of the OECD Established in 1974 after 1st Oil Crisis

29 Members Countries (vs. 34 for OECD) 4 Es: Energy security, Economy, Environment and Engagement

Introducing one player: the International Energy Agency

IEA member countries

OECD, non-IEA member countries

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Africa

(30 countries)

Middle East

(12 countries)

Former Soviet Union

(14 countries)

OECD

(34 countries) Non OECD Europe

(12 countries)

Latin America

(22 countries)

The IEA energy data collection is global

A network of statistics contacts in more than 140 countries + cooperation with other organisations

Asia

(19 countries)

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The IEA work on energy indicators statistics

5 Questionnaires / Various national sources

Energy balances/ Indicators

Basic energy statistics

CO2 / GHG emissions indicators

Coal

Oil

Gas

Renewables

+ Waste

Electricity

+ Heat

Energy efficiency indicators

An additional energy efficiency questionnaire

(only Member countries)

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Collecting national data worldwide to develop internationally comparable indicators

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Disseminating IEA energy statistics through web

www.iea.org/statistics

A lot of free data available!

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Sharing tools for countries to develop technical capacity

A template approved by IEA Ministers to collect data Two manuals on indicators: statistics and policy

for a harmonised approach to set targets and monitor progress

Data collection: excel template

Indicators manuals: available online

(English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish)

http://bit.ly/eei-statistics http://bit.ly/eei-policy http://www.iea.org/statistics/topics/energyefficiency/

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Two IEA statistics and one energy efficiency module per year

Several regional events with key partners (APEC, UNSD, AFREC, ..)

Key to develop technical capacity:

training and international cooperation

International co-operation will be essential to develop capacity towards monitoring sustainable development progress