The Asia Pacific Energy Portal is one aspect of ESCAP's support to regional member States under the Asian and Pacific Energy Forum (APEF). The portal has been designed to serve as an informational foundation, helping to meet that mandate and support ESCAP's ongoing energy-related activities, providing a map-based portal on energy data, policy (document search), trade flows, and infrastructure with indicators in 9 categories (e.g. energy supply and use, environment, and investment) with comparison function.