Ensuring energy security and addressing climate change issues in a cost-effective way are the main challenges of energy policies and in the longer term will be solved only through technology cooperation. To encourage collaborative efforts to meet these energy challenges, the IEA created a legal contract – Implementing Agreement – and a system of standard rules and regulations.

This allows interested member and non-member governments or other organisations to pool resources and to foster the research, development and deployment of particular technologies.

INTRODUCTION
IEA Implementing Agreements (IAs) provide the framework to advance the most efficient use of energy possible. Partnering with industry and non-member countries, the IEA Energy Technology Collaboration network is a cost-effective, global network.

Many Implementing Agreements include participants from non-member countries. The Energy Technology Data Exchange allows access to their extensive database of scientific information to more than 60 non-IEA countries. The Climate Technology Initiative engages with non-member countries to share best practice, to build capacity, to facilitate technology transfer and financing.

Improving energy efficiency, whether in the buildings and commercial services, electricity, industry or transport sectors is crucial for our environment and for energy security. Thirteen Implementing Agreements currently research various aspects of these end-use sectors. One recently created Agreement will analyse issues related to electricity transmission and distribution.

Fossil fuels are at the core of energy demand in the transport and electricity generation sectors and will be for many more years. The work of six IAs focuses on finding ways to make the most of existing resources, while at the same time getting the most from every barrel of oil or tonne of coal more costand energy-efficiently. ...

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International Energy Technology Collaboration
IEA Implementing Agreements

FOREWORD
Now, more than ever, the international community is looking to technology to help meet the pressing challenges of energy security, environmental protection, economic growth, and the need for clean energy technologies. International co-operation is essential if we are to find solutions to these challenges.

The Implementing Agreements of the International Energy Agency provide the forum for this cooperation. Through these Agreements, several thousand scientists and experts from countries all over the world – IEA members and non-members, government and non-government participants – are working together.This is the engine room of international energy technology collaborative programmes. ...

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) is an autonomous body which was established in November 1974 within the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to implement an inter national energy programme.

It carries out a comprehensive programme of energy co-operation among twenty-seven of the OECD thirty member countries. The basic aims of the IEA are:

    * To maintain and improve systems for coping with oil supply disruptions.
    * To promote rational energy policies in a global context through co-operative relations with non-member countries, industry and inter national organisations.
    * To operate a permanent information system on the international oil market.
    * To improve the world’s energy supply and demand structure by developing alternative energy sources and increasing the effi ciency of energy use.
    * To promote international collaboration on energy technology.
    * To assist in the integration of environmental and energy policies.

The IEA member countries are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States. Poland is expected to become a member in 2008. The European Commission also participates in the work of the IEA.

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