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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 Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG) on the UNFCCC, providing analysis of technical issues of relevance to the development of the Convention.
The IEA participates actively in UNFCCC meetings - see IEA Events at COP 17/COP MOP 7 in Durban.
Previous meetings: COP 16/COP MOP 6, COP 15/COP MOP 5, COP 14/COP MOP 4, COP 13/COP MOP 3 and COP 12/COP MOP 2.
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