IEA: ”World not on course for sustainable energy future”

The new IEA (International Energy Agency) publication “Energy technology perspectives 2006. Scenarios and strategies to 2050″ has been written in response to the G8 leaders meeting at Gleneagles in July 2005.

The report sketches a bleak picture of current energy trends. Even “taking account of energy efficiency gains and technological progress that can be expected under existing policies”, CO2 emissions, oil demand and the carbon intensity of the world’s economy will continue to grow rapidly over the next 25 years. “The world is not on course for a sustainable energy future”, concludes the IEA report.

But accelerated development of new technologies such as clean coal and CO2 capture and storage as well as electricity generation from gas, nuclear and renewables, combined with ambitious energy efficiency programmes for buildings, industry and transport can still reverse that trend, according to the energy watchdog.

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