About IEW
The International Energy Workshop (IEW) is an informal network of analysts actively working on international energy issues. The IEW provides a venue for scholars and researchers to compare quantitative energy projections and to understand the reasons for diverging views of future developments. The annual meetings typically include three plenary sessions and approximately 100 presentations in parallel sessions focused on a wide array of topics, including energy supply and price forecasts, energy efficiency, climate change, renewable energy, and the interface of energy, environmental, and economic issues. The original idea to establish this international network was introduced by the late Alan Manne, one of the founding fathers of energy economics and a long-time professor at Stanford University, who organized the first IEW in December 1981.
The motivation for the first IEW meeting in December 1981 was partly inspired by the Stanford-based Energy Modelling Forum (EMF). One of the EMF's functions is to compare energy projections. Modelling teams closely interact to apply their models to the same topic and using a largely standardized set of assumptions. This type of close cooperation was beyond the reach of this newly established network that aimed at analyzing international energy studies. The IEW has therefore taken the practical approach and asks for the results first and later worries about the method that led to them without attempting to provide feedback.
From 1981 to 1997, the IEW published annual editions of the IEW Poll, which documented GDP, energy and carbon dioxide emission projections for the world and major world regions. The data base behind these publications contributed to the 'Morita Database', which was compiled as a basis for the IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES).
Steering Committee
- Fatih Birol, International Energy Agency - alternate: Laura Cozzi
- Carlo Carraro, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, University of Venice, Vice Chair, IPCC Working Group III
- Alison Hughes, Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town
- Shunsuke Mori, Tokyo University of Science
- Holger Rogner, International Atomic Energy Agency - alternates: Mark Howells and Ferenc Toth
- Giancarlo Tosato, Energy Technology Systems Analysis Programme
- David Victor, Program on Energy & Sustainable Development, Stanford University
- John Weyant, Energy Modeling Forum
Further information is available in the IEW website.
