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Energy Business Council Structure
Dialogue among the IEA, the business community and policymakers The IEA Energy Business Council (EBC) brings together some of the world’s largest companies involved in energy exploration, production and consumption, ranging from oil, natural gas and coal companies to automobile and appliance manufacturers, wind and solar producers and financial institutions. The aim of EBC is to promote dialogue among the IEA, business community and policymakers across a broad range of cross-cutting issues with ...
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Industry Technology collaboration
Enabling greater industrial energy efficiency and supporting innovation for cost-effective industrial technologies and system configurations
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Energy Data Centre (EDC) online training Training
Background information Understanding the methods used to produce accurate data is vital to producing the meaningful energy statistics that help guide energy industry and policy makers. The world-recognized global energy statistics of the IEA are the result of its abundant data resources and a powerful team of experts.The IEA Energy Data Centre has designed a bi-annual virtual training course to teach the essential definitions, methods and tools for developing and reporting a wide range of compr...
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Saudi Arabia 2020 International collaborations - G20
IEA Contribution to G20 Under the Saudi Presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20), the IEA played a crucial role in convening an Extraordinary G20 Energy Ministerial on 10 April 2020 in the context of the turmoil in global oil markets. The IEA Executive Director updated Energy Ministers of the G20 on the state of energy markets and energy security at their regular G20 Energy Ministers Meeting on 27 September 2020. Ahead of the Ministerial, the voice of global business, the Business20 (B20) and the...
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Open-access training courses in Energy Efficiency Indicators Training
In addition to the training weeks, the Energy Efficiency in Emerging Economies Programme hosts open access, self-paced online training courses in Energy Efficiency Indicators: Fundamentals of Statistics and Essentials for Policymaking. The Energy Efficiency Indicators online training courses complement the training weeks by sharing methods and best practices in the development of energy efficiency indicators and the use of indicators for implementing more effective policy. O...
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Manuals Data and statistics
IEA Guide to Reporting Energy Technology RD&D Budgets This manual was written by the IEA for experts who collect and issue national RD&D data and submit responses to IEA RD&D surveys; it is mainly intended as a reference document. Tracking Public Investment in Energy Technology Research: A Roadmap A wide range of countries make efforts to track their entire national public energy research, development and demonstration (RD&D) activity on an ongoing basis, also sharing the collected ...
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Electricity Technology collaboration
Activities relating to innovation in electricity systems, such as smart grids, demand-side management and superconductivity technology
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Energy Efficiency Hub International collaborations
A platform for global collaboration on energy efficiency The Energy Efficiency Hub is a new platform for global collaboration on energy efficiency. Its Secretariat is hosted at the IEA to take advantage of natural synergies with the work of the Agency. The Hub aims to facilitate government-to-government exchanges on efficiency policy, regulation and implementation, focusing on buildings, industry, appliances, and transport. The Hub takes on issues important to its Members through thematic Task G...
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Mission Innovation International collaborations
Working to reinvigorate and accelerate global clean energy innovation Mission Innovation (MI) is a global initiative of 24 countries and the European Commission (on behalf of the European Union) working to reinvigorate and accelerate global clean energy innovation with the objective to make clean energy widely affordable. MI was announced at COP21 on 30 November 2015, as world leaders came together in Paris to commit to seek to double their governmental and/or state-directed clean energy re...
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Strait of Hormuz Oil security and emergency response
Factsheet Last updated: February 2026 Overview The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow sea passage, separating the Arabian Peninsula and Iran, and connecting the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. At its narrowest point, the Strait is only 29 nautical miles wide (54 km) and it consists of 2-mile-wide navigable channels (3.7 km) for inbound and outbound shipping as well as a 2-mile-wide buffer zone. The Strait of Hormuz, through which an average of 20 million barrels per day (mb/d) ...