Sectoral Approaches in Electricity
Eectricity is the largest, fastest growing emitter of energy-related CO2. Urgent action is needed to curb the growth in power-related CO2 emissions in the developing world. Sectoral Approaches in Electricity documents the danger of carbon lock-in in power generation and explains how the new climate policy options for discussion in Copenhagen can address this problem – on the supply and demand side of electricity. The IEA presented its recommendations on this topic to participants in the Barcelona UNFCCC meeting. read more...

IEA welcomes US and Chinese CO2 targets: The IEA welcomes the recent announcements made by the US and Chinese governments to cut greenhouse gas emissions, recognising these as key steps to get a global, meaningful agreement in Copenhagen. Both of these announced targets are in line with the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2009 450 Scenario, that aims to limit the long-term concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to 450 parts per million of carbon-dioxide equivalent – in line with keeping the global temperature rise to around 2°C above pre-industrial levels. read more...

IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka presented the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2009 in Tokyo on 25 November to over 300 journalists, officials, policy analysts and researchers at an event convened by the Institute of Energy Economics of Japan (IEEJ) and chaired by the IEEJ’s Chairman and CEO, Masahisa Naitoh. read more...

3:00pm (NY time) Press Conference: IEA Chief Economist Fatih Birol joins Luiz Augusto Cassanha Galvão, (Pan American Health Organization) and Olav Krjoven, (UNDP) to brief on the need for a new climate deal that will tackle energy poverty. See recorded webcast