Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy

RISE—Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy— is a global inventory of policies and regulations that support the achievement of SDG7 – electricity access, clean cooking, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. RISE tracks the regulatory indicators that can be compared across 133 developed and developing economies—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe—and over time, from 2010 to 2017. As a tool for policymakers, RISE allows them to benchmark their own country’s progress against that of peers and identify areas for policy and regulatory reform; as a tool for private investors, it supports their due diligence process for new projects, products, and services. This second edition of RISE incorporates several improvements, including: policy time trends since 2010; greater emphasis on tracking regulations that support enforcement; broader coverage of the heating and transport sectors in addition to electricity; and a pilot assessment of the policy environment for clean cooking in a dozen major access-deficit countries.