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and adequate policies was recognized as an important contribution to providing
energy for sustainable development. The international community noted that relevant
information could guide decision makers to suitable policy and energy supply options,
and that energy indicators were a tool for monitoring the consequences of such
choices. Decisions taken at CSD-9 pertinent to the refinement of the ISED included
the identification of the key energy issues of accessibility, energy efficiency,
renewable energy, advanced fossil fuel technologies, nuclear energy technologies,
rural energy, and energy and transport.
Energy was discussed the following year at the World Summit on Sustainable
Development (WSSD) held in Johannesburg. The international community built on
decisions taken at CSD-9 and reconfirmed access to energy as important in the
Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of people living in poverty
by 2015. The WSSD agreed to facilitate access for the poor to reliable and affordable
energy in the context of larger national policies to foster sustainable development. The
Summit also called for changes to unsustainable patterns of energy production and
use. The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI) that came out of the Summit
urges all nations, groups and institutions to take immediate action to achieve the goals
of sustainable development set out in Agenda 21 and at the Earth Summit +5, and
further elaborated in the JPOI.
The core set of energy indicators, now called Energy Indicators for Sustainable
Development (EISD), has been designed to provide information on current energy-
related trends in a format that aids decision making at the national level in order to
help countries assess effective energy policies for action on sustainable development.
The indicators can help to guide the implementation of actions urged at the WSSD,
namely, (i) to integrate energy into socioeconomic programmes, (ii) to combine more
renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced energy technologies to meet the
growing need for energy services, (iii) to increase the share of renewable energy
options, (iv) to reduce the flaring and venting of gas, (v) to establish domestic
programmes on energy efficiency, (vi) to improve the functioning and transparency of
information in energy markets, (vii) to reduce market distortions and (viii) to assist
developing countries in their domestic efforts to provide energy services to all sectors
of their populations.
The indicators should make it easier to see which programmes are necessary for
sustainable development. This should identify what energy statistics need to be
collected as well as the necessary scope of regional and national databases.
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