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State of Energy Policy 2026 Webinar
While no single narrative defines the energy policy shifts in 2025, the cost of living, competitiveness and resilient supply chains emerged as central themes alongside long-standing policy priorities relating to energy security, efficiency and sustainability.The IEA State of Energy Policy 2026 report provides a unique overview of policy progress in 2025 across all energy sectors and instruments, with a special focus on government spending, energy efficiency regulations, and the contribution of the energy sector to nationally determined contributions and long-term net zero pledges.This year’s report examines energy security policies since 1973, from oil and natural…
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Efficiency for industrial competitiveness
A panel discussion underlining how policies can unlock the potential for energy efficiency to drive industrial competitiveness and jobs.
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Delivering the Belém pledge: policy design to scale a suite of sustainable fuels
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is organising a workshop to discuss policy design to scale a suite of sustainable fuels. The COP30 Belém pledge, endorsed by 28 countries, aims to quadruple sustainable fuel production and use by 2035.IEA analysis supporting the pledge indicates that, if fully legislated and implemented, current and proposed national and international policies would put sustainable fuels use on a path to nearly double from 2024 levels by 2030 and quadruple by 2035. However, the IEA estimates that, with stated and announced policies, production and consumption would need to be 2.4 times greater, to meet…
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Thematic session: Driving energy efficiency for a competitive industrial sector
Event backgroundIn today’s context of energy market volatility and economic uncertainty, energy efficiency remains a key tool to advance affordability, energy security, and competitiveness. The 11th Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency will bring together global leaders to accelerate action, with industrial energy efficiency central to reducing energy use, emissions and strengthening competitiveness.Industry is a major driver of energy demand and economic growth. Efficiency improvements have enabled higher output with lower energy use, delivering cost savings, and productivity gains. Today, industries produce nearly 20% more value per unit of energy than two decades ago. In the G20, output…
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Gap between ambition and progress underscores need for stronger, targeted international collaboration, new report shows
…COP30 in 2025 and identifies near-term priorities that could help accelerate emissions reductions across six key sectors.The report comes against a backdrop of major energy market turmoil and growing demand around the world for energy services, particularly electricity. Global electricity demand rose by around 3% in 2025 – more than twice the pace of overall energy demand growth. Renewables and nuclear power met nearly 60% of the increase. Annual renewable capacity additions reached a record 800 GW, alongside rising investment in grids, electrified transport and industry.Yet global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions still edged higher in 2025…
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Why the growth of energy service companies is uneven globally
…energy efficiency projects typically financed through verified energy savings – are playing a growing role in delivering energy efficiency improvements across buildings, industry and transport infrastructure worldwide. By integrating project development, financing and performance guarantees, ESCOs can offer a proven way to reduce upfront investment barriers and shift technical and performance risks away from consumers.As highlighted in the IEA’s Energy Efficiency 2025 report, global ESCO investments grew by 10% in 2024, reaching a record USD 42 billion. Over the past five years, the sector’s average annual growth has reached 5% – more than double the rate since 2020.However…
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Thematic session: New frontiers in modern and efficient data centres
…will bring together global leaders to accelerate action, with data centres emerging as a key focus due to their rapidly growing electricity demand.Data centres are critical infrastructure for digital and energy transitions, but their electricity use is rising quickly. The IEA estimates their electricity consumption was nearly 500 terawatt hours (TWh), or about 1.5% of global electricity consumption in 2025, and will double by 2030. Ensuring efficient and flexible electricity use is therefore essential to balance data centre growth with grid resilience. This requires smarter design and operation of data centres, stronger integration with power and heat networks…
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Global Energy Review 2026
Background information The Global Energy Review 2026 provides an assessment of the trends that took place in 2025 across the energy sector worldwide, covering all major fuels and technologies, and regions and countries. It combines the latest available data with IEA analysis and insights, providing a full picture of the global energy landscape.The report explores recent developments in energy demand across oil, natural gas, coal, renewables, nuclear power – at both the global and country levels. It also reviews the latest changes in electricity demand and generation, as well as the pace of adoption of energy-related technologies such as…
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11th Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency
OverviewEnergy efficiency is a top priority for governments worldwide as they work to ensure energy security and affordability while reducing emissions. Despite this, global progress has slowed over the past few years, locking in wasted energy, higher costs, and increased emissions.The IEA Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency is the leading international forum for advancing energy efficiency. Each year, it brings together ministers, CEOs, and senior leaders from government, finance, and business sectors across the globe.Many governments are implementing policies to boost energy efficiency, and the IEA’s Global Conference on Energy Efficiency aims to provide policy makers…
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Thematic session: Buildings as active players in the energy transition
Event backgroundIn today’s context of energy market volatility and economic uncertainty, energy efficiency remains essential for affordability, energy security and competitiveness. The 11th Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency will bring together global leaders to accelerate action, with efficient, interactive buildings emerging as a key part of more flexible and resilient energy systems.Buildings account for a large share of global energy demand, which is expected to grow further with electrification, cooling needs and urbanisation. Improving building efficiency and enabling smarter interaction with the grid can lower energy costs, optimise power systems and strengthen resilience.Governments are not starting…