The International Energy Agency is facing calls to make the national energy data it collects from governments publicly available.
This would aid independent research, which in turn could help to accelerate the global transition to low-carbon energy.
More than 30 international academics have written to the global energy watchdog to call for it to drop its paywalls for national energy datasets, which are collected using public funds, to avoid making climate action “more costly and less effective”.
The IEA publishes a number of influential reports on global energy systems, based in large part on the national energy data provided by the governments that it counts among its members. However, much of the data that underpins these reports is
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