World Energy Outlook from the International Energy Agency (IEA)

The World Energy Outlook 2004 presents long-term projections for supply and demand of oil, gas, coal, renewable energy sources, nuclear power and electricity. It also assesses energy-related carbon dioxide emissions and policies designed to reduce them. The International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook has long been recognised as the authoritative source for projections of global trends in energy supply and demand, trade and investment and carbon dioxide emissions. This edition extends its projection horizon to the year 2030. Against the background of the re-emergence of energy security as a global concern, it highlights the rapidly expanding importance of China as a strategic buyer on world oil and gas markets, the fact that a quarter of the world's population still lacks modern energy services, the huge investments needed to maintain dependable energy supplies world wide, and the scale of the task facing those countries that are committed to reducing their greenhouse-gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. This new edition in the World Energy Outlook series incorporates the latest energy-market and price developments. It covers the world and 19 regions and draws lessons for energy security, trade and investment. It provides readers with a solid analytical basis for understanding the drivers of energy markets and the challenges facing both policy-makers and the private sector. See: http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/