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IEA Launches ‘Energy to 2050 (2003) - Scenarios for a Sustainable Future’

‘Energy to 2050 - Scenarios for a Sustainable Future’ has recently been launched by the International Energy Agency (IEA). In analysing the interaction between energy and climate change up to fifty years ahead, this volume – as its title suggests – uses scenarios in its exploration of options for the future.

Different types of scenarios are introduced and evaluations are given of how these can be used to analyse specific aspects of the interaction between energy and the environment. The ‘exploratory scenarios’ in the volume are based on different expectations of the technical and/or policy developments over the next five decades. While the ‘normative scenarios’ use as their basis a set of desirable features or ‘norms’ that the future world should possess.

These long-term scenarios complement the IEA’s World Energy Outlook which focuses on the mid-term.

224 pages, ISBN 92-64-01904-9.
For a more comprehensive review and to order, please go to: http://www.iea.org/books.