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IEA welcomes France's commitment to combating climate change and urges the government to pursue electricity sector reforms
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Category: Emissions
2010-07-26 14:55:33
The International Energy Agency (IEA) commends France's efforts to increasingly adapt its energy policy to global energy and climate challenges. At the launch of the new publication Energy Policies of IEA Countries - France 2009 Review today in Paris, IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said, "The government's goals to decrease CO2 emissions by 75% by 2050 and to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transport sector to 1990 levels by 2020 are both ambitious and encouraging." The comprehensive environmental programme, Grenelle de l'Environnement, including the recent law Grenelle II, sets priority directions for French energy and environment policy and outlines concrete actions towards achieving the ambitious targets. Although some of the initially planned measures have proven challenging in the context of the economic slowdown and budget constraints, the Grenelle-II law still has many positive provisions. It is particularly encouraging that it prioritises emission reductions and energy efficiency improvements in the buildings and transport sectors. These two sectors account for the bulk of France's GHG emissions, and reducing them is a daunting task, especially for the transport sector.
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Category: Emissions
2010-07-26 14:55:33
The International Energy Agency (IEA) commends France's efforts to increasingly adapt its energy policy to global energy and climate challenges. At the launch of the new publication Energy Policies of IEA Countries - France 2009 Review today in Paris, IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said, "The government's goals to decrease CO2 emissions by 75% by 2050 and to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transport sector to 1990 levels by 2020 are both ambitious and encouraging." The comprehensive environmental programme, Grenelle de l'Environnement, including the recent law Grenelle II, sets priority directions for French energy and environment policy and outlines concrete actions towards achieving the ambitious targets. Although some of the initially planned measures have proven challenging in the context of the economic slowdown and budget constraints, the Grenelle-II law still has many positive provisions. It is particularly encouraging that it prioritises emission reductions and energy efficiency improvements in the buildings and transport sectors. These two sectors account for the bulk of France's GHG emissions, and reducing them is a daunting task, especially for the transport sector.
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IEA encourages Turkey to further reform its energy sector and move towards a low-carbon economy
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Category: Emissions
2010-07-26 14:51:50
Turkey will likely see the fastest medium to long-term growth in energy demand among the IEA member countries," said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), today in Ankara. Presenting the new study Energy Policies of IEA Countries - Turkey 2009 Review, he noted that although ensuring sufficient energy supply to a growing economy remains the government's main energy policy concern, "Turkey has also progressed significantly in all other areas of energy policy over the past few years." Turkey needs large investments in energy infrastructure, especially in electricity and natural gas, to be able to supply affordable energy to its people and to sustain rapid economic growth. To attract that investment, the country needs to continue reforming its energy market. "Power sector reform is well under way, but in the natural gas sector reform has been slower and needs to be accelerated," Mr. Tanaka said.
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Category: Emissions
2010-07-26 14:51:50
Turkey will likely see the fastest medium to long-term growth in energy demand among the IEA member countries," said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), today in Ankara. Presenting the new study Energy Policies of IEA Countries - Turkey 2009 Review, he noted that although ensuring sufficient energy supply to a growing economy remains the government's main energy policy concern, "Turkey has also progressed significantly in all other areas of energy policy over the past few years." Turkey needs large investments in energy infrastructure, especially in electricity and natural gas, to be able to supply affordable energy to its people and to sustain rapid economic growth. To attract that investment, the country needs to continue reforming its energy market. "Power sector reform is well under way, but in the natural gas sector reform has been slower and needs to be accelerated," Mr. Tanaka said.
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IEA sees the first early signs of an energy technology revolution underway across the globe
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Category: Green Energy
2010-07-01 16:05:37
"For several years, the IEA has been calling for an energy revolution to tackle climate change and enhance energy security and economic development. For the first time, we see early indications that such a revolution is under way," said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Presenting the new IEA study Energy Technology Perspectives (ETP) 2010 in Washington DC, he said "after sowing the seeds for such a revolution in our last edition in 2008 by demonstrating that greater reliance on low-carbon technologies can transform the way we produce and use energy, ETP 2010 now highlights the first ‘green shoots' of what could become such a fundamental change."
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2010-07-01 16:05:37
"For several years, the IEA has been calling for an energy revolution to tackle climate change and enhance energy security and economic development. For the first time, we see early indications that such a revolution is under way," said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Presenting the new IEA study Energy Technology Perspectives (ETP) 2010 in Washington DC, he said "after sowing the seeds for such a revolution in our last edition in 2008 by demonstrating that greater reliance on low-carbon technologies can transform the way we produce and use energy, ETP 2010 now highlights the first ‘green shoots' of what could become such a fundamental change."
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IEA: Carbon capture and storage crucial for mitigating climate change
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Category: Emissions
2010-06-30 14:38:47
Two years after the G8 leaders' commitment to the broad deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) by 2020, significant progress has been made towards commercialisation of CCS technologies. Yet the 2008 Hokkaido G8 recommendation to launch 20 large-scale CCS demonstration projects by 2010 remains a challenge and will require that governments and industry accelerate the pace toward achieving this critical goal. This is one of the main findings of a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF), and the Global CCS Institute, to be presented to G8 leaders at their June Summit in Muskoka, Canada. Analysis has shown that CCS is an essential component of a portfolio of technologies and measures to reduce global emissions and help avoid the most serious impacts of climate change. Together with renewable energy technologies, nuclear energy and greater energy efficiency, CCS contributes significantly to the least-cost route of reducing and stabilising the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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2010-06-30 14:38:47
Two years after the G8 leaders' commitment to the broad deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) by 2020, significant progress has been made towards commercialisation of CCS technologies. Yet the 2008 Hokkaido G8 recommendation to launch 20 large-scale CCS demonstration projects by 2010 remains a challenge and will require that governments and industry accelerate the pace toward achieving this critical goal. This is one of the main findings of a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF), and the Global CCS Institute, to be presented to G8 leaders at their June Summit in Muskoka, Canada. Analysis has shown that CCS is an essential component of a portfolio of technologies and measures to reduce global emissions and help avoid the most serious impacts of climate change. Together with renewable energy technologies, nuclear energy and greater energy efficiency, CCS contributes significantly to the least-cost route of reducing and stabilising the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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Expansion of nuclear energy is a key contributor to combating climate change
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Category: Emissions
2010-06-17 14:44:42
Almost one quarter of global electricity could be generated from nuclear power by 2050, making a major contribution to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. This is the central finding of the Nuclear Energy Technology Roadmap, published today by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). Such an expansion will require nuclear generating capacity to more than triple over the next 40 years, a target the roadmap describes as ambitious but achievable. Speaking from the East Asia Climate Forum in Seoul, IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said: "Nuclear energy is one of the key low-carbon energy technologies that can contribute, alongside energy efficiency, renewable energies and carbon capture and storage, to the decarbonisation of electricity supply by 2050." NEA Director General Luis Echávarri stated: "Nuclear is already one of the main sources of low-carbon energy today. If we can address the challenges to its further expansion, nuclear has the potential to play a larger role in cutting CO2 emissions."
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2010-06-17 14:44:42
Almost one quarter of global electricity could be generated from nuclear power by 2050, making a major contribution to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. This is the central finding of the Nuclear Energy Technology Roadmap, published today by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). Such an expansion will require nuclear generating capacity to more than triple over the next 40 years, a target the roadmap describes as ambitious but achievable. Speaking from the East Asia Climate Forum in Seoul, IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said: "Nuclear energy is one of the key low-carbon energy technologies that can contribute, alongside energy efficiency, renewable energies and carbon capture and storage, to the decarbonisation of electricity supply by 2050." NEA Director General Luis Echávarri stated: "Nuclear is already one of the main sources of low-carbon energy today. If we can address the challenges to its further expansion, nuclear has the potential to play a larger role in cutting CO2 emissions."
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