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Mr. Atle TostensenHead of the secretariat of the Oslo GroupOG4 – 2 February 2009

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Background and objective

• Established as a city group by UN Statistical Commission 2005

• “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. “

– One action point: “To review and contribute to the updating of UNSD handbooks and manuals on energy statistics”

• In parallel establishment of InterSecretariat Working Group on Energy Statistics (InterEnerStat)

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Who are the Oslo Group members?

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Activities of OG in 2008: IRES and ESCM

• From 3 manuals to 2:

• International Recommendation on Energy Statistics (IRES)

• Energy Statistics Compilers Manual (ESCM)

• Distribution of responsibility: – UNSD – editor– Oslo Group – main content provider

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Oslo Group – main content provider

• All chapters are based on contributions from the members of the Oslo Group and on other international standards and manuals

• OG members has contribution: – At OG1:

31 presentations and documents

– At OG2: 28 presentations and documents

– List of issues 2007 and OG3: 40 presentations and documents

– IRES drafting schedule 2008: 11 chapters written by UNSD and 11 issue papers written by OG members.

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New Website: http://og.ssb.no

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International Workshop on Energy Statistics

• Aguascalientes, Mexico, 2-5 December 2008

• Part of the consultation process on IRES.

• Serve as a forum for particular developing countries to actively contribute to preparation of IRES

• Objectives:– Review chapters for IRES– Review country practices– Identify main difficulties from the country perspective– Make progress on making IRES applicable for all countries

irrespectively of the level of development of their statistical systems.

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Cooperation with other groups 1

• InterEnerStat: – Process of Harmonization of definitions– Focused on the country perspective.

• London Group: – Participation at LG meeting in Brussels in August 2008– One energy day – OG presentations on

Renewable vs. non-renewable (issue 3.2) Primary vs. Secondary energy (issue 3.3) Comparing terminology between accounts and statistics

– Main focus on assets (Ole Gravgaard)– IRES main input for SEEA-E

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Cooperation with other groups 2:Climate change, Development and Official Statistics

• Two meetings (Oslo 04-2008 and Seoul 12-2008)

• Program Reviewer report (E/CN.3/2009/2) for SC 2009

• ”7. The objective of this Review is to specify how official statistics may be used for climate change related measurement and analysis and to identify recommendations and actions to mainstream the climate change aspect of official statistics, thus strengthening the role of official statistics and NSOs in this area.[]”

• Climate statistics part of official statistics

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Cooperation with other groups 2:Climate change, Development and Official Statistics

• “26. Another priority area is energy statistics. The Oslo Group and the Intersecretariat Working Group on Energy Statistics are working on this and together with UNSD they are preparing the new IRES and the ESCM with a view to improve official energy statistics. This work takes into account the requirements of emission inventories and other climate change related aspects of energy statistics.”

• “27. Recommendation I: Ensure that relevant international statistical standards and classifications give proper attention to climate change issues, with particular focus on land use/land cover and energy statistics.”

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Implications for OG and our work:

• Climate statistics part of official statistics => energy statistics must be official statistics

• Focus on user needs related to scope of energy statistics– Production boundary– Principles – etc.

• Collect data once – use many times (official statistics)

• Energy data collected and treated for multiple users/multipurpose

• Aim: Reliable, consistent, timely and comparable energy data available for all users

• Lead to: Consistent data in all systems

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OG4 – Ottawa, 2-6 February 2009

• Hosted by Statistics Canada

• Dedicated to review of the draft IRES,and the way and process forward for IRES

• Set up issues to be addressed in ESCM

• OG5 in Ireland (cooperation CSO and SEI)