4. Specification of relevant IEA energy statistics

Notes on combustible renewables and waste from OECD metadata [IEA Web site]

in 1996 and 1997, the Secretariat extensively revised data on combustible renewables and waste (i.e. solid biomass, biogas, liquid biomass, industrial waste and municipal solid waste) based on data from Eurostat (for the 15 EU member countries) and on other national sources for other OECD member countries. As consumption data for combustible renewables and waste from Eurostat are generally available from 1989, there may be breaks in series between 1988 and 1989 for some EU member countries. Generally data on combustible renewables and waste are reported in non-specified prior to 1989 for EU member countries.

In December 1999, the Energy Statistics Working Group, made up of the IEA, the United Nations, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Eurostat and their respective member governments, decided to develop a separate annual questionnaire on renewables and wastes in the hope that this would improve the quality of reporting by national administrations. As a result of this new questionnaire, it is possible that there will be breaks in renewables and waste time series between 1997 and 1998 until national statistical offices are able to revise their series. In order to improve the quality of renewables and waste statistics and to ensure data compatibility, the IEA initiated a project in 2002 with the objective to compare and harmonize historical IEA data with those of national administrations and/or Eurostat for EU member countries, where applicable. As a result, the renewables and waste time series of many countries were revised back to the year 1990.”

IEA definitions of parameters

SBIOMASS	Primary solid biomass (TJ – net)	The figures are expressed in terajoules based on net calorific values. Biomass is defined as any plant matter used directly as fuel or converted into other forms before combustion. Included are wood, vegetal waste (including wood waste and crops used for energy production), animal materials/wastes, sulphite lyes, also known as "black liquor" (an alkaline spent liquor from the digesters in the production of sulphate or soda pulp during the manufacture of paper where the energy content derives from the lignin removed from the wood pulp) and other solid biomass. This category contains only primary solid biomass. This includes inputs to charcoal production but not the actual production of charcoal (this would be double counting since charcoal is a secondary product).
CHARCOAL	Charcoal (1 000 t)	Charcoal covers the solid residue of the destructive distillation and pyrolysis of wood and other vegetal material.

IEA GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE

Africa includes Algeria, Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Other Africa.

Other Africa includes Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger, Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Swaziland and Uganda.

Middle East includes Bahrain, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

Non-OECD Europe includes Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Malta, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, and Slovenia.

Former USSR includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

Latin America includes Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela and Other Latin America.

Other Latin America includes Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Dominica, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Suriname.

China includes the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong (China).

Asia includes Bangladesh, Brunei, Chinese Taipei, India, Indonesia, DPR of Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and Other Asia.

Other Asia and Other Oceania includes Afghanistan, Cambodia, Bhutan, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Laos, Macao, Maldives, Mongolia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu.

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) includes Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.

5. Temporal coverage by item and primary source

			Last year of the series
			Black - liquor	Charcoal				Fuelwood				Primary solid biomass*	Transf. - loss	Woodfuels
		First - year	Black - liquor	Cons.	Export	Import	Produc.	Cons.	Export	Import	Produc.	Primary solid biomass*	Transf. - loss	Cons.	Export	Import	Produc.
code	Primary Source	First - year	BlkLiq	ChCons	ChExp	ChImp	ChProd	FwCons	FwExp	FwImp	FwProd	PsbCons	TraLoss	WfCons	WfExp	WfImp	WfProd
1	WETT99 best estimate	1980	1998	1998	1998	1998	1998	1998	1998	1998	1998		1998	1998			1998
3	Country report	1980	2002	2010		2002	2002	2010	2002	2002	2002			2010
5	ENDA/IEPE	1985		1994				1994
6	ESMAP	1970		1988				1990
7	Other National	1973		2002	2002	2002		2002		2002
8	IEA non- OECD 99	1980		1999				1997
10	FAOSTAT (1998)	1980		1998				1998
11	UN Energy Statistics 1995	1982		1995				1995
13	RWEDP	1985		1997				1997
16	FUNBAR	1980		1990				1990
17	OLADE 80-97	1980		1997				1997
18	ECE/ETTS	1980												1990
19	Eurostat 89-94	1989												1994
20	IEA OECD Wf 80-94	1980												1994
21	LBL	1980												1993
25	FAOSTAT (2003)	1961	2003	2003	2003	2003	2003	2003	2003	2003	2003		2003	2003	2003	2003	2003
27	UN energy statistics (2002)	1980			2001	2001	2002				2002
30	GFPOS 1970-2030	1970		2030				2030
31	OLADE 90-02	1990		2002				2002
34	IEA (2002)	1960	2002	2002		2002	2002	2002				2002