TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Based on the Global Economic Energy Efficiency Ranking (the base year is 2005 and the latest global updated data is 2009), Professor Yunchang Jeffery Bor, President of the Triple-E Institute and Head of the Department of Economics, Chinese Culture University, has indicated that the global economic energy efficiency in 2009 has improved 6.03% in total compared to the base year. There are 85 countries that have made a positive contribution to the world’s economic energy efficiency and 44 countries have had a negative effect on the world’s economic energy efficiency. Among 129 countries, the United States is ranked in first place; China is in second place followed by Russia, Germany, and Ukraine. Global ranking can be found in http://www.triple-e.org.tw/.
Energy efficiency can lessen the impact of high energy prices and mitigate the global warming problem on mother Earth. Improving energy efficiency is also the most cost-effective, ready-to-go and no-regrets strategy. The Advanced Economies have made considerable effort in improving economic energy efficiency of 3.37% since the Kyoto Protocol came into effect on February 16, 2005. On the other hand, economic energy efficiency goes up by 2.65% for Emerging and Developing Economies.
The leading country in North America is the United States that contributed 1.59% to economic energy efficiency. The United States has tried hard to switch from being an energy waste country in the 1990s to becoming the top ranking country in the world. Germany is the leading country in Europe with a contribution of 0.32%. The practice of either energy saving or new energy developing in Germany is always highly acknowledged by the world. In the Asian region, the new leading country is Korea (ranking in 7th position), with a contribution of 0.19%. The recent performance of Korea is strong and stable, and serves as a good example and mirror for Taiwan (ranking in 16th position and down 4 places compared to 2008) as well as other Asian countries. The major reason for the low performance (ranking in 40th position) in Japan is not because of energy wastage but because of the severe reduction in economic growth due to the financial crisis in 2009. India is the worst in the world in 2009 and the major cause is the inefficiency of energy use in the agricultural and service sectors. The poor performance of energy use in the manufacturing makes United Arab Emirates the second worst in the world.