IEA REPORT
March 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PARIS-based International Energy Agency (IEA) says more efforts must be undertaken to decouple energy consumption and economic growth. Although its report 'Oil Crises and Climate Challenges' found that since the 1970's wealth has increased much faster than energy use, it found 1970's oil crisis sparked more effective energy conservation measures and greenhouse gas emission reductions than recent Kyoto Protocol linked policies. *http://www.iea.org/dbtw-wpd/bookshop/add.aspx?id=174
THE PARIS-based International Energy Agency (IEA) says more efforts must be undertaken to decouple energy consumption and economic growth. Although its report 'Oil Crises and Climate Challenges' found that since the 1970's wealth has increased much faster than energy use, it found 1970's oil crisis sparked more effective energy conservation measures and greenhouse gas emission reductions than recent Kyoto Protocol linked policies. *http://www.iea.org/dbtw-wpd/bookshop/add.aspx?id=174
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