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IEA World Energy Outlook: “If We Don’t Change Direction, We’ll End Up Where We’re Heading”

November 14, 2011 by Big Gav
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SP at TOD ANZ has a look at the latest IEA report - “If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re heading”.That is the prominent quote headlining the English language executive summary of the World Energy Outlook Report of the International Energy Agency released Wednesday.The following are selected passages from the... [read more]

OECD & IEA: Reforming Fossil-Fuel Subsidies Will Improve The Economy

October 4, 2011 by Tomaz Ostir
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In the “about-to-be-published” (Novemeber 9) World Energy Outlook, emphasizes the importance of reforming the fossil-fuel subsidies. Their claim is that "Removing inefficient subsidies would raise national revenues and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions", according to OECD and IEA analyses. [read more]

IEA: it’s going to get hot

November 11, 2010 by Eric Smalley
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its annual World Energy Outlook and, though the group took a different tack this year, the forecast remains distressing. This year’s Outlook report, which projects global energy use to 2035, differs from previous years by assuming that governments will adhere to their stated energy... [read more]

Phasing out Fossil Fuel Subsidies Will Help, But Only Innovation Can Make Clean Energy Cheap

November 10, 2010 by Jesse Jenkins
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By Jesse Jenkins, originally at the Breakthrough InstituteOver at theEnergyCollective.com, Tyler Hamilton dives into the International Energy Agency's newly released forecast of global energy trends (exec sum here [pdf]) focusing on the disparity in global subsidies for renewables and fossil fuels:The International Energy Agency put out... [read more]

Subsidies for renewables: $57 billion; subsidies for fossil fuels: $312 billion

November 9, 2010 by Tyler Hamilton
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The International Energy Agency put out its annual World Energy Outlook today and urges strong and sustained government support for the deployment of renewable energy. The agency pegs 2009 subsidies for renewables at $57 billion and calls for that to increase to $205 billion by 2035. “The share of modern renewable energy sources,... [read more]

Tamar’s Law: You say you want a carbon revolution?

November 14, 2009 by Dan Yurman
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But world governments must open their wallets firstGuest Blog Post by Tamar Cerafici*This is my last post from Sweden, as things heat up for the climate change conference next month in Copenhagen which is just across a narrow body of water (left) called the Kattegatt. A bit of history: the Kattegatt is an interesting maritime formation... [read more]

Nuclear Energy Growth Might Turn Promises of Low Natural Gas Prices Into a Reality

November 6, 2009 by Rod Adams
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Just yesterday, I wrote a lengthy piece talking about how natural gas suppliers are working hard to market their product to both gas customers and to politicians who are making large impact energy policy decisions. One of the marketing bullets being used is that natural gas is newly abundant and can thus be considered a reliable, long... [read more]

Runaway energy demand

November 15, 2007 by ShaiAgassi
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Idan Ofer pointed me to a great article in The Financial Times by Martin Wolf where he summarizes and puts into perspective the latest World Energy Outlook report by the IEA. The entire article is well worth reading, but I want to highlight a few points from it...I do recommend not to read this post before you go to sleep, you will not... [read more]