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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 Annex I Expert Group (AIXG) on the UNFCCC, providing analysis of technical issues of relevance to the development of the Convention.

The IEA participates actively in UNFCCC meetings (COP 8, COP 9, COP 10, COP 11/COP MOP 1, COP 12/COP MOP 2,
COP 13/COP MOP 3 and COP 14/COP MOP 4).



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  • CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion, 2009 Edition  2009
  • CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion 2009 - Highlights  2009
  • From 1st- to 2nd-Generation Biofuel Technologies - Full Report  2008
  • Price Caps and Price Floors in Climate Policy  2008
  • From 1st- to 2nd-Generation Biofuel Technologies - Extended Executive Summary  2008

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  • 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
  • 14th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and 4th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP 14/COP MOP 4) 2008
  • 8th Annual Workshop of Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading 2008
  • Sectoral Approaches to International Climate Policy Workshop 2008
  • 13th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and 3rd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP 13/COP MOP 3) 2007
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