World Energy Outlook 2010
(to be released 9 November)

This year’s edition of the World Energy Outlook – the International Energy Agency’s flagship publication and leading source of analysis of global energy trends – presents updated projections of energy demand, production, trade and investment, fuel by fuel and region by region to 2035. WEO-2010 includes, for the first time, the result of a new scenario that takes account of the recent commitments that governments have made to tackle climate change and growing energy insecurity.

WEO-2010 puts the spotlight on pressing topical issues facing the energy sector:

• The long-term implications for the energy sector of climate policy action.
• The pervasiveness of energy subsidies worldwide and what removing them would mean for energy use and climate change.
• The prospects for expanding the role of renewable energy technologies, their cost and barriers to their deployment.
• Trends in Caspian energy markets and their implications for global supply security and the environment.
  
• The outlook for unconventional oil, including oil sands, extra-heavy oil, shale oil and gas
  and coal-to-liquid technologies.
• The requirements for tackling energy poverty in the least developed countries.

With extensive data, projections and analysis, WEO-2010 provides invaluable insights into how the global energy system could evolve over the next quarter of a century. The book is essential reading for anyone with a stake in the energy sector.

World Energy Outlook 2009

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
  

See related material:


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

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• Download the WEO 2009 Climate Change Excerpt