Energy Indicators for Sustainable Development of Azerbaijan Republic - Economic Dimension

Abstract

Starting with the publication of the Brundtland Report "Our Common Future" in 1987, various international and national organizations are developing sets of indicators for measuring and assessing aspects of sustainable development. When developing a national strategy for sustainable development, one should keep in mind the energy indicators of the sustainable development of the country prepared within the UN framework. Real assessment of the level of economic development of Azerbaijan Republic is impossible without the choice of a set of objective energy indicators that allow carrying out diagnostics of the state of the country's economy. In the article the author considers economic dimension energy indicators for sustainable development of Azerbaijan Republic on the basis of the UN methodology.

Keywords: energy indicator for sustainable development, sustainable development, oil and natural gas production, Azerbaijan economy, alternative energy resources, equator principles, economic dimension, industrial energy intensities, agricultural energy intensities, household energy intensities, transport energy intensities