First Adoption for National Renewable Energy Targets in 187 Countries (1975-2017) Article Swipe
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· 2021
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5148738
· OA: W4393422362
This dataset was used in the publication of "All Roads Lead to Paris: The Eight Pathways to Renewable Energy Target Adoption" in the journal of <em>Energy Research & Social Science.</em> The objective was to compile data on the first national adoption of a renewable energy target in each country to analyze its mechanisms of diffusion (learning, economic competition, emulation, and coercion). The data were compiled for 187 countries for the period ranging from 1975 to 2017. The list of countries was gathered from the Annex I of IRENA's "Renewable Energy Target Setting" report. We used primarily the IEA policies database (https://www.iea.org/policies) to identify the first adoption of a renewable energy target in each country. Other sources were used when data was unavailable in such repository for specific countries. Additionally, we include the data gathered from various sources, as they were used in our paper for measuring variables. The variables in this dataset include: target adoption (or “Target”, from various sources listed in the dataset); year of adoption (or “Year”, from various sources listed in the dataset); cumulative membership to energy-related international environmental agreements (or “IEA”, with data from Mitchell’s International Environmental Agreements Database Project); net energy imports as a percentage of energy use (or “Energy”, with data from the World Bank); a similarity index (or “Similarity”, created with data from the Polity Index, population and GDP per capita from the World Bank, and revenue from the World Bank); official development assistance as a percentage of gross national income (or “ODAGNI”, with data from the World Bank and OECD); income level (“Income”, with data from the World bank); and the international price for oil (“Oil”, with data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). For more details, refer to the manuscript. Note that in 2018 the “IEA’s policy database” was actually the “<em>IEA/IRENA RE Policies and Measures database”</em>. The links for the sources for renewable energy target adoption for Norway and Albania were lost in the transition from one to the other; all other sources could be retrieved by the authors.
