Abstract—Sustainable development is conveying core messages in a broad sense in various countries with different industrial structures. Developing countries are facing multi-dimensional problems due to the lack of stability in operational aspects and strategic plans. Energy efficiency has been addressed by scholars from different perspectives; however, it has not been tackled from the CO₂ emission reduction point of view as an objective and the international mechanisms such as Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). This paper proposes a conceptual framework entitled ¨House of Energy Efficiency〃 in order to fill the aforementioned gap and also to suggest a supportive framework for the existing models attaining ultimate goal of sustainable development and the environment as a whole with respect to the oil and gas industries. The practicality of the model has been tested through a case study in National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) and other case studies conducted by former scholars and consequently the results have been reflected into the proposed model.

Index Terms—sustainable development, developing countries, energy efficiency, CDM, oil and gas industry, NIGC

Cite: Omid Maghazei, Sepehr Marzi, and Parnia Shafinezhad, "House of Energy Efficiency–A Supportive Conceptual Framework for Developing Countries: the Case of Iran," Journal of Industrial and Intelligent Information, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 308-313, December 2014. doi: 10.12720/jiii.2.4.308-313