See check list in annex . Data source primarily from sources which relate to or deal directly with industry and its associations. For coordination of data collecion within the organization, it is connected to the NCPC, ESID and energy programmes run by the Environment Branch as well as to the chemical activities run by the Chemical Branch. The latter type is quality controlled through the technical activities of the organization.
Users are mainly Governments.
Information brokerage pilot programmes were run in Thailand and Peru and will continue to be a key element for dissemination. Meta-inventories of relevant information and more recently of energy efficient technologies exist. To promote the use of pilot activities, seminars and training courses were held on the availability and use of sources of information. The tool allows the users to enter their baseline data together with several scenarios of changing their industrial processes. Automated procedures then run to show the technical and economic implications of those changes.