The Durban signatories need IEA policy and technology expertise to meet their goals in aspects from energy efficiency to low-carbon technologies When the dust settled from the after-the-last-minute agreement at the Durban climate-change talks, the work was just starting for the IEA.

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This article appears in the second issue of IEA Energy, which covers a broad range of today’s energy issues, from technology to market developments, and highlights the energy challenges of tomorrow.

In keeping with its domestic clean-energy plan, Denmark makes “green research and green jobs” a priority during its six-month EU Presidency

Reaching a consensus is a difficult enough challenge among politicians in the same party, let alone with those in competing parties. Everything from political wrangling to economic pressures can, and often does, derail agreements continuing from one government to the next.

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This article appears in the second issue of IEA Energy, which covers a broad range of today’s energy issues, from technology to market developments, and highlights the energy challenges of tomorrow.

China’s spending on oil and gas imports more than doubled between 2009 and 2011 as a result of higher energy prices and increased import volumes – IEA Chief Economist Last week, the IEA released some slides which assess how current crude prices are contributing to economic malaise.

The second set of slides continues to focus on the global impact of the current oil price.

Slides (part 2): Impact of high oil prices on the economy

Article by senior coal analyst, Carlos Fernández Alvarez, in IEA Energy


Conventional wisdom suggests that coal is a 19th-century energy, close to disappearing. But coal demand instead keeps on growing. In the last decade, coal has met half of the incremental increase in primary energy demand worldwide, and it remains the main source for electricity generation in OECD member countries as well as many of the fastest-growing emerging economies.

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This article appears in the second issue of IEA Energy, which covers a broad range of today’s energy issues, from technology to market developments, and highlights the energy challenges of tomorrow.

Article by IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven in IEA Energy


Just under seven months have passed since I started at the International Energy Agency, but it has been a busy, productive and challenging time. At my first Governing Board meeting, in September, we ended the Libya Collective Action that brought extra supply onto the markets to buttress energy security during the fighting in Libya. In October, we organised a successful Ministerial meeting with unprecedented attendance of a record number of key partner countries, from China to South Africa to Brazil.

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This article appears in the second issue of IEA Energy, which covers a broad range of today’s energy issues, from technology to market developments, and highlights the energy challenges of tomorrow.