Insights

This resource guide is a select anotated bibliography on sustainability and clean energy

Article details the possible and probable ways through which China and the US can cooperate to ensure a green-energy and clean-tech future.

Analysis of trends and issues in the financing of renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Article by IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka that stresses the need for global economies to secure supplies of reliable and affordable energy, and effect a rapid transformation to a low-carbon, efficient and environmentally benign system of energy supply.

IEA Chief Economist Fatih Birol provides supporting reasons and explanations for global economies to secure supplies of reliable and affordable energy, and effect a rapid transformation to a low-carbon, efficient and environmentally benign system of energy supply.

Report focusing on alternative energy development policy, financing and technologies.

Research identifies the implications to investors of the key structural trends facing the global economy, environment, societies and industries, and identifies companies well-placed to sustain competitive advantage and superior long-term returns on capital.

Report highlights the actions industrial and tertiary business leaders should take to contribute to sustainable development.

Article identifies the problems and proposes solutions to help developing countries and their businesses seize the initiative on energy productivity.

Doug Houseman, CTO of Capgemini’s global utility practice, explores the real impact of renewable energy on the electric grid and the challenges faced by utilities.

International leaders from several high-profile companies discuss the future of the wind and solar industries.

Article postulates that three factors must be fulfilled to ensure the growth and survival of the solar energy market: a drive to maintain low costs, willingness to take risks and a reduction in relevant subsidies.

Paper synthesizes the environmental, economic, and policy literature perspectives on the possible effects of biofuels, identifies gaps in understanding and recommends areas for future work.

Report highlights and analyses possible motivations for Asian countries to develop biofuel industries, arguing that mitigation of climate change does not seem to be an important driving factor, and urges that this mentality must change in order to ensure sustainability and stability in the region.

Report explores China’s potential to achieve sustainable growth, and explores the options for  reducing carbon emissions, and the use of nuclear, hydroelectric and other renewable energy to replace coal.

Surveys the basic anatomy of selected model form contracts for drilling, seismic acquisition, construction and vessel services, and discusses the suitability of each for use in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

Analysis of how Clean Development Mechanism projects have developed in Asia.

Video interview with Wood Mackenzie senior analyst on the gas industry's opportunities and challenges in monetising future gas in the post-economic downturn environment. 

Video interview with Kenneth Lieberthal, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of its John L. Thornton China Center, in which he addresses the difficult questions China and the US face in the lead up to Copenhagen.

IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka urges world governments to ensure that stimulus packages aimed at restoring growth also embrace low-carbon technologies.

IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka discusses worldwide oil production and the current energy market.

Podcast presents Wood Mackenzie's view on the impact of the Clean Development Mechanism on Asian carbon emissions.

Interactive presentation on ways for China and the US to cooperate in order to ensure a green energy and clean-tech future.

Jeroen van der Veer, former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, offers his thoughts on matters such as the oil industry, leadership and the economic downturn.