Worldwide Trends in Energy Use and Efficiency: Key Insights from IEA Indicator Analysis

IEA

2008

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Governments in many countries are increasingly aware of the urgent need to make better use of the world’s energy resources. Improved energy efficiency is often the most economic and readily available means of improving energy security and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. What progress are we currently making in our efforts to improve energy efficiency? Why are countries’ energy intensities so different? And how can the introduction of best available technologies help reduce energy use? To answer these questions, the IEA has developed in-depth indicators – tools that provide state-of-theart data and analysis on global energy use, efficiency developments and CO2 emissions. These indicators form part of the IEA contribution to the G8 Gleneagles Plan of Action for Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development. Worldwide Trends in Energy Use and Efficiency summarises the main results and conclusions from this work. It brings together information on all enduse sectors plus power generation, for key developed and developing countries. Using new statistics and methodologies, the analysis clearly identifies the factors driving and restraining the demand for energy, and the opportunities for improved energy efficiency. It also highlights the gaps in currently available data and proposes a major new international effort to improve the availability and quality of information on this crucial topic. [Contracarátula]

Eficiencia energética; Estadísticas; Nivel mundial;