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For over a decade, the IEA has been providing analyses on the energy dimension of climate change and the energy implications of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol. The Agency’s areas of expertise include emissions trading and the CDM (from international architecture to domestic implementation issues), the links between energy security and climate policy goals and, the effects of policy uncertainty on investment, and sectoral approaches to emission reductions.

IEA’s activities on energy efficiency and future emission scenarios are also of direct relevance to climate change policy issues. In 2005, in Gleneagles, the G8 leaders mandated the IEA to provide advice on a range of energy policy issues linked to climate change.

Since 1999, the IEA has also maintained a database of its Member countries’ policies and measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as databases on energy efficiency and renewable energy policy.

Together with the OECD Environment Directorate, the IEA provides a Secretariat for the Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG) on the UNFCCC, providing analysis of technical issues of relevance to the development of the Convention.

The IEA participates actively in UNFCCC meetings (COP 12/COP MOP 2,, COP 13/COP MOP 3 and COP 14/COP MOP 4 and COP 15/COP MOP 5 and COP 16/COP MOP 6).


Policies and Measures Databases

Publications and Papers
  • Summing up the parts  2011
  • Climate and Electricity Annual 2011  2011
  • Review Existing and Proposed Emissions Trading Systems  2010
  • CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion  2010
  • The economics of transition in the power sector  2010

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    Related Programmes
  • Climate Change Expert Group on the UNFCCC (CCXG)
  • Emissions Trading and CDM
  • Policies and Measures Databases
  • Sectoral Approaches
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    Workshops
  • 17th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and 7th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP 17/COP MOP 7) 2011
  • 11th Annual Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading 2011
  • 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and 6th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP 16/COP MOP 6) 2010
  • 10th Annual Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading 2010
  • 15th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and 5th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP 15/COP MOP 5) 2009

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    Related Committees and Working Parties
  •  Standing Group on Long-Term Co-operation (SLT)

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    Contact Information
  • Climate change contact
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