First Adoption for National Renewable Energy Targets in 187 Countries (1975-2017)

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 &amp; 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.本数据集曾用于发表于《能源研究与社会科学》（Energy Research & Social Science）期刊的论文《条条大路通巴黎：可再生能源目标采纳的八大路径》（All Roads Lead to Paris: The Eight Pathways to Renewable Energy Target Adoption）。本研究旨在汇编各国首个可再生能源目标的采纳数据，以分析其扩散机制（包括学习效应、经济竞争、模仿效仿与强制约束）。本数据集覆盖1975年至2017年间的187个国家，国家列表来源于国际可再生能源署（IRENA）《可再生能源目标设定》报告的附件一。数据采集主要依托国际能源署（IEA）政策数据库（https://www.iea.org/policies）识别各国首个可再生能源目标的采纳情况；若特定国家在该数据库中无相关数据，则采用其他补充数据源。此外，本数据集还纳入了论文中用于变量测算的多源采集数据。本数据集包含以下变量：1. 目标采纳情况（简称"Target"，数据来源于数据集所列的各类来源）；2. 采纳年份（简称"Year"，数据来源于数据集所列的各类来源）；3. 能源相关国际环境协定累计成员国数（简称"IEA"，数据来源于Mitchell的《国际环境协定数据库项目》）；4. 能源净进口量占能源使用量的百分比（简称"Energy"，数据来源于世界银行）；5. 相似性指数（简称"Similarity"，基于世界银行的政体指数、人口与人均GDP数据，以及世界银行的税收收入数据构建）；6. 官方发展援助占国民总收入的百分比（简称"ODAGNI"，数据来源于世界银行与经济合作与发展组织（OECD））；7. 收入水平（简称"Income"，数据来源于世界银行）；8. 国际原油价格（简称"Oil"，数据来源于圣路易斯联邦储备银行）。更多细节请参阅论文手稿。需注意，2018年时原"IEA政策数据库"实际已更名为《IEA/IRENA可再生能源政策与措施数据库》。挪威与阿尔巴尼亚的可再生能源目标采纳数据源链接在两次数据库的迁移过程中丢失；其余所有数据源均可由作者重新获取。