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presented in this report. A short description of these various agency programmes is
presented below.
2.3.1 The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the ISED/EISD Effort
The IAEA initiated this indicator project in 1999 in cooperation with various
international
organizations, including the IEA and UNDESA, and some Member
States of the IAEA. As previously mentioned, the original name was Indicators for
Sustainable Energy Development (ISED). This name was
later modified to Energy
Indicators for Sustainable Development (EISD) to reflect the view held by some users
that ‘sustainable energy development’ refers only to renewable energy and not to the
broader spectrum of energy choices. The project was conceived (i) to fill the need for
a consistent set of energy indicators applicable worldwide, (ii)
to assist countries in
the energy and statistical capacity building necessary to promote energy sustainability
and (iii) to supplement the work on general indicators being undertaken by the CSD.
The project has two phases. In the first phase (2000–2001), a potential set of energy
indicators for sustainable development was identified and the conceptual framework
to define and classify these indicators was developed. During the second phase, which
began in 2002, the original set of indicators
and framework were refined, and the
practical utility of the indicator set in a variety of applications is being demonstrated
by incorporating the indicators into relevant databases and analytical tools, using them
in ongoing statistical analyses (capacity building) and helping
countries to use the
system to track their energy strategies in conformity with their national objectives of
sustainable development.
In the first phase, the original set of 41 indicators was developed and defined in terms
of their assigned DSR characters, with desirable responses
identified for improving
the sustainability of energy systems. A conceptual framework was developed that
defined major themes and sub-themes, and systematic cross-linkages among
indicators. The results of the first phase were presented at CSD-9 in April 2001.
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The second phase started with a coordinated effort led by the IAEA to implement the
set of EISD in the following countries: Brazil, Cuba,
Lithuania, Mexico, Russian
Federation, Slovak Republic and Thailand. These countries have selected particular
subsets of the EISD most relevant to their energy priorities and have applied these
indicators in analyses of their current and potential future energy systems and policies.
This implementation programme concludes in 2005 with reports summarizing the
findings.
Also during the second phase, the EISD project was classified as a WSSD
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