Executive Summary
- Suggested section length: 1 page
- Summarise the main findings of the report.
- Include brief discussions of each indicator.
- Compare the current year's indicators with 1990 values.
- Discuss major policy initiatives or other developments that
may affect the trend of any of the indicators.
- A summary table comparing each indicator's current value
with 1990.
- A template of this suggested table for your use.
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Introduction
- Suggested section length: 1 page
- not as an introduction
to the use of indicators, or SEW's set of eight indicators
- introduction of the person or team comprising each
country's Observer-Reporter
- their affiliation and contact information
- a short biography of each author and contributor
- whether a report was filed last year (and if so, by whom).
- discuss the report's completeness (especially if one or more
indicators could not be reported on and why)
- major problems in finding the needed statistics or calculating
the vectors.
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General Discussion
of Your Country
- Suggested section length: 1-2 pages.
- Introduce your country in a general way
- Be creative and concise.
- There is no need to report on all of the topics suggested
below
- A geographic and demographic overview with a simple description
of the nation's energy picture may suffice.
- land area
- arable land
- principal crops
- area under irrigation
- animal husbandry
- population and rate of growth
- economic growth
- principal imports and exports (energy and non-energy)
- literacy and education
- urbanisation
- income and equity issues
- Other topics of interest to readers may include:
- principal environmental pressures
- pertinent new legislation
- brief discussion of greatest social concerns that you consider
important eg:
- gender issues,
- nutrition,
- food adequacy for the nation's poorest,
- public health,
- political freedoms, etc.
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Other Energy-Related
Developments
- Suggested section length: 1 page
- Discuss other important developments, especially those related
to the indicators
- Discuss your country's use of traditional fuels such as wood,
bio-energy, and charcoal
- Discuss short-term energy developments eg.
- hydropower projects
- their impacts on the land, the environment, and the people
who live in the region.
- Be creative, think expansively, but be concise
- Discuss developments affect the sustainability of your country
or region or the globe not measured by the indicators. Eg.
- A new coal mine
- pollute the region's water supply,
- create needed jobs, and
- pollute the air around the powerplant; it will also
- release quantities of methane, an important non-carbon
greenhouse gas that our indicators do not measure.
- a planned factory for manufacturing CFCs
(banned in industrial countries party to the Montreal Protocol
but allowed in other countries until 2010)17
- a new crude oil or natural gas pipeline originating in
or transiting through your country.
- Discuss related legislative and regulatory changes and your
country's overall energy policies and objectives.
- Mention major international financial investments and projects.
- Discuss energy sector or indicator-related incidents (e.g.,
pipeline breaks, refinery incidents, forest fires, industrial
spills, transportation accidents, and energy-related military
events, if any).
- You may want to mention other possible indicators that seem
especially useful for your country, but are not part of SEW's
set of eight indicators.
- You may even want to develop a separate indicator, compare
it to 1990's value, and report on it in your Executive
Summary as well as the sections on Notes to SEW
and Notes to Future Observer-Reporters.
- Please do not substitute this indicator for any of SEW's
indicators. It is important that Regional Node Coordinators
and the SEW Secretariat be able to track a consistent and uniform
set of indicators for geographic regions and the world as a
whole.
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