The Oslo Group on Energy Statistics

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The Oslo Group on Energy Statistics

• Joint UNECE/OECD/Eurostat Working Group
• on Statistics on Sustainable Development
• Olav Ljones, Deputy Director General, Statistics
  Norway
• 16. November 2006

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Statistical Commission UN

• Document to 36th Statistical Commission 2005
  Report of the Programme Reviewer (Statistics
  Norway) on energy statistics.
• Conclusions and Recommendation
• A better integration of the energy statistics
  community with the energy policy community.
  Capacity building. Official statistics
• Ad hoc meeting, New York May 2005
• Follow up
• Two groups, City Group (Oslo) and
  Intersecretariat Working Group
• Adopted by the Bureau, Statistical Commission

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The Oslo group?

• Chaired by Olav Ljones, Statistics Norway
• Secretariat Statistics Norway
• Participants
• Experts from national statistical offices and/or
  energy ministries/authorities
• Experts from international organizations engaged
  in energy statistics
• Experts from academia energy sciences, energy
  economics, statistics
• Energy experts from the private sector to be
  invited to participate as advisers
• Today 19 countries and 5 organizations
• Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
  Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden,
  The Netherlands, UK, South-Africa, India, Canada,
  Mexico, USA UN (UNSD), IAEA, IEA, IMF, Eurostat.

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Terms of reference

• Objective To address issues related to energy
  statistics and contribute to improved
  international standards and improved methods for
  official energy statistics by pooling expertise
  in the energy community

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Terms of reference

• 1. To identify user needs.
• 2. To define scope of official energy statistics.
• 3. To identify and collect national and
  international best practices.
• 4. To review and contribute to the updating of
  UNSD handbooks and manuals on energy statistics.
• 5. To identify gaps in coverage (e.g. fuel types,
  flows) and to develop methodology to cover gaps.
• 6. To adopt link or develop bridges to
  international standard concepts and
  classifications in economic/environmental
  statistics to facilitate the integration and
  interface of energy statistics with other
  statistical systems.
• 7. To recommend a core set of tables as a minimum
  at national and international level to satisfy
  major user needs.

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How do we organize our work?

• First meeting in Oslo in February 2006
• http//www.ssb.no/ocg
• 37th Statistical Commission, New York, March 2006
• Discussion forum http//forum.ssb.no/blah.cgi
• Second meeting in New Delhi in February 2007
• 38th Statistical Commission, New York, March 2007
• Third meeting in 2008
• Timeframe 5 years 2006-2010.

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Coordination with international Activities

• Environment Economic Accounts and SD indicators
• Discussion in Statistical Commission 2006
• UNCEEA umbrella function
• London Group
• Oslo Group
• Meetings in London Group and UNCEEA June 2006
• The Joint UNECE/OECD/Eurostat Working Group
• International cooperation Energy Statistics
• IEA, Inter Ener Stat
• JODI
• Future coordination ? SNA revisions?

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Coordination of Energy Statistics- NSI perspective

• Quality principles for Official Statistics
• Datacapture, response burden
• Standards
• Dissemination
• One Statistical Office - reuse of data og
  coordinated dissemination

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Energy Statistics in the NSI

• Production of energy
• Import/export of energy
• Use of energy
• Sectors and industries
• Definition of energy products,
• Renewable and non renewable energy sources
• Energy Accounts/balances
• Coordinate with
• National Accounts,
• Emission Statistics
• International BoP and trade

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Energy Statistics and SD

• Give priority to energy, economy, environment and
  sustainability
• Coordinate reforms about energy in SEEA, SNA
  Energy Accounts and Emission Accounts
• Sustainable Indicatores a broad perspective and
  conceptual capital approach
• Does not contradict partial models like for
  energy and emission and global heating
• Capital and resources in energy sector. Energy
  Capital.
• Discuss if we should ask for revisions, also of
  SNA