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General energy system and GHG emissions

The International Energy Annual is an Energy Information Administration (EIA) publication that presents information on all major forms of commercial energy throughout the world.


A countrywise overview of the Worlds Emissions from Fossil Fuel Burning and Cement Manufacturing is provided by the Carbon Dioxide Information Center (CDIAC).


The World Resources Institute (WRI) is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives. The Environmental Data Tables provide information on
  • Energy Production by Source
  • Energy Consumption by Source
  • Energy Consumption by Economic Sector
  • Energy from Renewable Sources
  • Resource Consumption


World Recources 1998-99
The eighth biennial issue of the most authoritative report on the global environment brings together in a highly readable format the latest ideas on a broad spectrum of natural resource issues and suggests strategies for addressing them. World Resources 1998-99 focuses on the critical issue of environmental change and human health. Drawing on the latest scientific data, this section of the Report explores how environmental conditions contribute to the current burden of death and disease around the world and how that may change over the coming decades. World Resources 1998-99 looks at several critical trends that are changing the physical environment such as the intensification of agriculture, industrialization, and rising energy use, and that have the potential to influence human health. As in previous volumes, World Resources 1998-99 also looks at the current state of the environment as it relates to population and human well-being, consumption and waste, and resources at risk. The book also contains the latest core country data from 157 countries and new information on poverty, inequality, and food security.


The company Enerdata s.a. provides World Energy Statistics and Information. The total energy consumption is available at the Energy Statstics Yearbook.


Ressources for the future (RFF) is a nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank located in Washington, D.C. that conducts independent research – rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences – on environmental and natural resource issues. It provides the report "The Weathervane Guide to Climate Policy".


The International Energy Agency (IEA), based in Paris, is an autonomous agency linked with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The IEA is the energy forum for 26 Member countries. IEA Member governments are committed to taking joint measures to meet oil supply emergencies. They have also agreed to share energy information, to co-ordinate their energy policies and to co-operate in the development of rational energy programmes.

Objectives:
  • To maintain and improve systems for coping with oil supply disruptions;
  • To promote rational energy policies in a global context through co-operative relations with non-Member countries, industry and international organisations;
  • To operate a permanent information system on the international oil market;
  • To improve the world's energy supply and demand structure by developing alternative energy sources and increasing the efficiency of energy use;
  • To assist in the integration of environmental and energy policies.


General description of bioenergy systems



Land use, land use change, and forestry

Tables on Forest Cover and Change, and Certified Forest Area and Land Area and Use are presented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Forest Stewardship Council.


IPCC Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change And Forestry

World Resources Institute

National policies and measures

The IEA implemented in collaboration with the European Comission and the Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition a Global Renewable Energy Policies and Measures Database.

The Climate Change Knowledge Network brings together expertise, experience and perspectives from more than a dozen organizations from developing, transitional and developed countries. Limited resources, knowledge and capacity in developing countries, and lack of dialogue and understanding between industrialized and developing countries, obstruct progress toward international efforts to address climate change. The Climate Change Knowledge Network aims to help address these gaps by facilitating focused research and capacity building in developing and developed countries, with sustainable development as the overall goal.

The Climate Compendium "National Policies" provides updated news, reports and publications of national climate policies.

The Climate Compendium "Scientific Research" provides updated news, reports and publications of national research activities in the field of climate change.

Regional and local policies and measures



Implementation projects



Research programms



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