Embargoed webinar for the IEA’s Africa Energy Outlook 2019 report launch
The International Energy Agency will release the most comprehensive global analysis to date on Africa’s energy sector in a new World Energy Outlook special report on Friday, 8 November, 2019. IEA Chief Energy Modeller Laura Cozzi will host an embargoed press webinar on Thursday, 7 November, to review the main findings.
The report – Africa Energy Outlook 2019 – is special focus in the forthcoming World Energy Outlook 2019 but is also being published early as a standalone report. Five years after the World Energy Outlook’s first special report on Africa, the IEA has updated and expanded its analysis to reflect Africa’s increasing importance in global energy affairs.
Rapid economic and population growth in Africa, particularly in the continent’s burgeoning cities, will have profound implications for the energy sector, both regionally and globally. The stage is set for a new wave of dynamism among African policy makers and business communities, with falling costs of key renewable technologies opening up new avenues for innovation and growth. Chief among the challenges is providing universal access to reliable, modern, affordable and sustainable energy. Realising the potential of the continent’s natural gas and mineral resources presents another key challenge.
This new report provides important policy insights to help African energy stakeholders achieve the continent’s growth ambitions in a sustainable and inclusive manner. It also explores how the rise of consumerism in Africa might affect global trends. It contains a unique richness of data and analysis, the centrepiece of which are detailed, comprehensive, data-rich outlooks for eleven sub-Saharan countries developed in consultation with our African partners.
Copies of the report will be made available under embargo to webinar participants and/or interested journalists. Journalists who sign up for the webinar will automatically receive an embargoed copy.
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