World Energy Outlook 2009
(released 10 November)

The 2009 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO), was released on 10 November and it provides updated projections that take into account the implications of the global credit crisis, the economic slowdown and the recent slump in the prices of oil and other forms of energy. It also presents in-depth analysis of three special topics:

• Financing energy investment under a post-2012 climate framework
• Prospects for global natural gas markets
• Energy trends in Southeast Asia
  

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• Presentation to the Press
• Video of Launch of World Energy Outlook 2009 in London
• Executive Summaries
  

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Go to the WEO-2009 new Electricity Database

WEO 2009 Climate Change Excerpt
(released 6 October)

IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka released a special early excerpt of the World Energy Outlook 2009 at the Bangkok UNFCCC meeting entitled “How the energy sector can deliver on a climate agreement in Copenhagen”. The excerpt sets out the latest greenhouse-gas emissions trends, updated in light of the financial crisis, as well as detailing a pathway for the energy sector to achieve a transition to a low-carbon world.

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