World Energy Assessment: Overview 2004 Update

Johansson, Thomas B.
Goldemberg, José

2004

92-1-126167-8

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The World Energy Assessment (WEA) published in the year 2000 – a 500-page document – provides analytical background and scientific information for decision makers at all levels. It describes energy’s relationship to sustainable development and analyses how energy can serve as an instrument to reach that goal. The Assessment was based on data and analysis available in 1998. Since then, important developments have taken place at the intergovernmental, business, and technological levels. These developments and others led the institutions that established the World Energy Assessment to ask us to update the Overview to that document, taking into account developments since it was finalised in late 1999. The result is the analysis presented here. The 2004 Overview provides a comprehensive view of energy for sustainable development issues and options. The basic objective of the WEA is maintained, that is, to provide an assessment of issues and options related to energy for sustainable development and to provide information on alternative global experiences. The basic approach developed and presented in the WEA is maintained as well. However, the data and analysis have been updated to reflect new information available through early 2003. [Extracto, Preface]

Desarrollo sostenible; Energía; Estrategias energéticas; Nivel mundial;