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Building Country Profiles
Satisfying Brazil's Energy Demands, Without Sacrificing the Environment
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An IAEA-led partnership is helping countries to formulate energy policies
that are adequate, affordable and environmentally friendly. The partnership
is developing a comprehensive set of energy indicators - called Indicators
for Sustainable Energy Development, or ISED - to help nations devise
better energy policies that take sustainable development into account.
The ISED indicators will help governments and policy makers to properly
evaluate the impact of their current energy policies, measure and monitor
important changes and assess their country's progress towards sustainable
development. IAEA Project Coordinator of the Partnership, Mr. Ivan Vera,
said the ISED indicators would allow countries to prioritize energy issues. "If
a government is deciding what kind of policies or development targets
to establish, or how to encourage their implementation, it could use
the indicators to assess the social, economic and environmental impacts
of such decisions on the country's sustainable development," he
said.
Examples of the ISED indicators being developed include those that evaluate
the accessibility and affordability of energy services, identify air
quality gains in the midst of growing energy use, and gauge the energy
intensity of a country's economic sector.
Mr. Vera said the ISED indicators provide a more complete picture of
the interrelationships between different trends in a given country. "Indicators
combine statistics in such a way that trends and relationships among
parameters are brought into new perspective." (See
sample charts.)
Brazil, Cuba, Lithuania, Mexico, Russia and the Slovak Republic are working
in partnership with the IAEA to develop and implement these indicators.
Capacity building is also an important element of the initiative. The
Partnership will enhance the statistical analytical capabilities in participating
countries and promote understanding of their sustainable energy needs.
The partnership began in May 2002 and runs for three years, with the
possibility of a three year extension. Other intergovernmental organizations
involved in the partnership include: the International Energy Agency,
UNDESA - Division for Sustainable Development and Statistics Division,
Eurostat and the Economic Commission for Europe. Supporting groups include:
the International Center for Theoretical Physics (Italy), the Center
for Energy Policy (Russian Federation) and the Center for Energy-Environment
Research & Development (Thailand).
The full partnership submission is available here.
Also see how the ISED approach is helping Brazil work
towards energy sustainable development.