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UNECE Activities to Track Progress on Energy for

Sustainable Development in the Region

26th Session of the Committee on Sustainable Energy 27 September 2017, Geneva

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Progress fell short of what is needed to meet 2030 targets

Electricity Access: Target: 100%, 2014: 85.3%

Access to Clean Cooking Fuels & Techn.: Target: 100%, 2014: 57.4%

Share Renewables in TFC: Target: 36%, 2014: 18%

Energy Efficiency: Target: -2.6% CAGR, 2012-214: -2.1% (compare CAGR 2010-2012: -1.9%)

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Global Tracking Framework

Global Results

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL

GLOBAL TRACKINGFRAMEWORK

For all targets: Rate of change

insufficient

• EE closest to meet 2030 targetsCAGR = Compound annual growth rate

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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy progress insufficient

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Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency & Energy Access

Results

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Beyond SDG7 Pillars

Fossil Fuels

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UNECE Energy Mix

(% of TPES, 2014)

Fossil Fuel Shares in TPES

UNECE Subregions (2014)

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Beyond SDG7 Pillars

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Global and UNECE Share of

CO2 Emissions from Fossil

Fuel Combustions (2014)

Per-Capita Fossil Fuel Combustion related CO2

per TPES for UNECE Subregions 1990-2014

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Beyond SDG7 Pillars

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Energy-Sector Greenhouse Gas Intensity in TPES in UNECE countries

(2012-2014)

• Data gaps for many countries

• Different reporting periods

• Mainly bottom up reporting of emissions

• No independent verification of submitted data

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Tracking Energy for Sustainable Development

Indicators across the Sustainable Energy System

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Broad set of indicators required

• Fossil fuels related aspects (share of FF in TPES, generation efficiency, etc.)

• Climate aspects such as climate intensity of the energy sector

• Nexus considerations such as for the energy-water-food nexus

• Quality of life

Review of existing indicators

• Renewable Energy: Share of RE in TFEC versus Share of RE in TPES, Investments into RE

• Move beyond physical access to quality of access, including affordability

A System Perspective on Energy for Sustainable Development

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UNECE REN21 Renewable Energy Status Report 2017

Tracking Progress across Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Indicators

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Tracking Progress across renewable energy and energy efficiencyindicators

• 17 countries of South East and Eastern Europe, the

Caucasus, Central Asia and the Russian Federation

• First edition in 2015

• A reliable data baseline for increased investment

activity

• Strong Involvement of key stakeholders for data

collection and review: governments, IOs, and civil

society

• Key finding: decline of RE investments. Why ?

What to do?

Full report and info on GERE at: https://www.unece.org/energy/re.html

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Energy for Sustainable Development

Scoping the SDGs

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Objective

Deriving a set of

indicators that helps

to track progress on

energy across the

2030 Agenda.

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Broadening the Set of Indicators

Tracking Progress for Energy for Sustainable Development

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SDG7 Review at the

High-Level Political

Forum (HLPF)

Defining energy indicators

beyond SDG7 that allow a

more holistic assessment

of progress, while making

the linkages to other

energy-related SDGs.

For more details: See Annex 5 in

the GTF report.

Energy for Sustainable

Development

Renewable Energy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Access

Other Energy Sources

(Fossil Fuels, Nuclear, …)

Nexus:

Climate, Water, Land,

Food, Environment

Energy Services

Partnerships

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Access to the Report

Preliminary Version

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Download

https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/energy/se

/pdfs/comm26/Room_documents/CSE_26_201

7_INF_9.pdf

(Room Document Inf.9 of 26th CSE session)

Final Consultation

Further feedback received before 16 October

2017 will be considered for inclusion into the

report.

E N E R G Y

Scott Foster

Sustainable Energy Division

UNECE

Date 27 I 09 I 2017, Geneva

Thank you!

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Backup Slides

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SE4ALL Indicators: 100% Access to electricity, 98% Access to clean cooking fuels

Energy Services

Beyond Physical Access

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Access Realities

• Some countries face limited power supply, outages, poor service quality, despite 100% access

• Human comfort and safety depends on substantial heat services in most UNECE countries

• Significant challenge to upgrade, renew older un-insulated housing stock, with locked-in fossil fuel dependence

Energy Poverty

• In all countries, low-income households make tradeoffs between heat, food, or other needs

• Measurable proportion of households spend more than 10% of income on energy

• Addressing GHG emissions without energy efficiency could worsen energy poverty

‘Efficiency first’ offers a least cost approach to improving service and access.

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SE4ALL Indicators: 8MJ/USD in 1990 to 5.1MJ/USD in 2014 (2011ppp)

3.9EJ avoided TFC between 2012 -2014

Energy Efficiency

Demand and Supply Side Perspectives

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Demand Side Energy Efficiency

• Most countries have National Energy

Efficiency Action Plans, but limited progress

and compliance tracking

• Building energy efficiency is slow

• Solid appliance efficiency progress in North

America and the EU

• Largely untapped industry energy

management productivity potential

• Outside EU, vehicle fuel economy not

progressing

Further value in studying energy efficiency

progress, potentials and prospects.

Supply Side Energy Efficiency

• Fossil fuel power plant efficiency grew

from 36% in 1990 to 41% in 2014

• Gas fired generators improved from

37% in 1990 to 49% in 2014, the highest

amongst regions

• Electricity T&D losses declined from

8.2% in 1990 to 7.2% in 2014, the lowest

amongst the regions

• Natural gas T&D fell from 1.2% to 0.6%

Significant scope to replace coal with gas

and renewable energy power options

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SE4ALL Indicators: Share RE in TFC: 5.9% (1990) to 11.5% (2014)

Renewable Energy

Integration Challenges

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Overall, significant fossil fuels lock-in, but

• Development in introducing more competitive market-based support mechanisms such as auctions are increasingly applied

• Traditional wood stoves offer efficient low-cost RE

• Experience and lessons learnt from countries with significant RE upscaling within the region

• Challenges exist regarding the market design to manage variability, and financial incentives to provide needed back-up

With 100% access, the role of utilities is critical

• Market design is key to managing variability,

• Capacity pricing motivates renewable energy that complements system load dynamics,

• Need to enabling economic demand and supply side choices.

• Clear accountabilities for back up.

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Renewable Energy

Additional Indicators

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Differences

Share of RE in TPES and TFC

Renewable Energy Capacity Additions

(2013-2015)

• U.S.: from 192 GW in 2013 to 219 GW in

2015

• Western and Central Europe: From 2000-

2015, 23% of global capacity additions.

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7.1 By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable,

reliable and modern energy services

7.1.1 Proportion of population with access to electricity

7.1.2 Proportion of population with primary reliance on

clean fuels and technology

7.2 By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the

global energy mix

7.2.1 Renewable energy share in the total final energy consumption

7.3 By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency

7.3.1 Energy intensity measured in terms of primary energy and GDP

SDG7

Targets and Indicators

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7.A By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean

energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy

efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote

investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology

7.a.1 Mobilized amount of United States dollars per year starting in 2020

accountable towards the $100 billion commitment

7.B By 2030, expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying

modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, in

particular least developed countries, small island developing States, and

land-locked developing countries, in accordance with their respective

programmes of support

7.b.1 Investments in energy efficiency as a percentage of GDP and the amount of

foreign direct investment in financial transfer for infrastructure and technology to

sustainable development services

SDG7

Targets and Indicators

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• SDG6: Clean water and sanitation

• SDG7: Affordable and clean energy

• SDG9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

• SDG11: Sustainable cities and communities

• SDG12: Responsible consumption and productions

• SDG13: Climate action

• SDG17: Partnerships

• SDG1: No poverty

• SDG8: Decent work

and economic growth

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Energy-related SDGs