articleRenewable and Sustainable Energy ReviewsJan 21, 2025HYBRID OA

Paving the way towards a sustainable future or lagging behind? An ex-post analysis of the International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook

GLGabriel LopezYPYousef PourjamalCBChristian Breyer

Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology

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Abstract

Since 1993, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has published its flagship publication, the World Energy Outlook (WEO), which has become the authoritative report on energy statistics for the reference year and guiding energy demand developments for the decades to come. This research seeks to understand the evolution of energy demand in the WEO and how the WEO projections have performed compared to historical developments. Furthermore, this study analyses the range of future projections for the central WEO scenarios from 1993 to 2022, the outlook scenarios, compared to the scenarios aimed at higher levels of sustainability, the normative scenarios. The results suggest that while the IEA has accurately…

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  • Lagging
  • Agency (philosophy)
  • Sustainable energy
  • Energy (signal processing)
  • International agency
  • Political science
  • Engineering
  • Renewable energy
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