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E2: Environmental statistics and accounts; sustainable development

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The indicator is part of the EU Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator set. It is used to monitor progress towards SDG 7 on affordable and clean energy; which is embedded in the European Commission’s Priorities under the 'European Green Deal'.

SDG 7 calls for ensuring universal access to modern energy services, improving energy efficiency and increasing the share of renewable energy. To accelerate the transition to an affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy system, countries need to facilitate access to clean energy research, promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology.

The EU aims to improve energy efficiency by 20 % by 2020, as set in the Europe 2020 strategy, and by at least 32.5 % by 2030, according to the revised Energy Efficiency Directive. The European Green Deal includes energy efficiency as a key measure for reducing cross-sectoral GHG emissions.

The EU is implementing an interconnected set of measures "Fit for 55" to reach the new climate targets for 2030 and has followed a new strategic plan REPowerEU to reduce the EU dependency on energy imports. The European Green Deal includes energy efficiency as a key measure for reducing cross-sectoral GHG emissions. Energy efficiency and Renewable energy Directives set ambitious EU targets to be reached by 2030.

The indicator measures the energy end-use in a country excluding all non-energy use of energy carriers (e.g. natural gas used not for combustion but for producing chemicals).

“Final energy consumption” covers only the energy consumed by end users, such as industry, transport, households, services and agriculture; it excludes energy consumption of the energy sector itself and losses occurring during transformation and distribution of energy.

million tonnes of oil equivalent (TOE), index 2005 = 100 and TOE per capita

Calendar year.

The indicator is produced according to the high-level quality standards of European Statistics. Details on accuracy can be found in the metadata of the source datasets (see link to related metadata).

ESS

Data source: European Statistical System (ESS).

Data provider: Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, based on Energy saving - annual data.

Every year

Indicator is updated annually in May. Complete and updated ESS data release information can be accessed via Eurostat release calendar.

T+2 years

New data points are disseminated within two years after the reference year.

All EU MS

Data are presented for all EU Member States plus Iceland, Norway, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Türkiye, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo^(*).

_{(*)   This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.}

All EU MS

Data are comparable between all EU Member States respectively other presented countries due to the use of joint questionnaires (harmonised methodology for all EU and OECD countries).

> 10 years

Presented time series (including EU aggregates) starts in year 2000.

> 4 data points

Length of comparable time series without methodological break is longer than 4 data points.

Analysis of indicator is presented in Eurostat's annual monitoring report on Sustainable development in the EU (progress towards SDGs in the EU context).

See table sdg_07_11

Eurostat dedicated section on SDGs: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/sdi/overview

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