ESI, EMA and ISEAS cordially invite you to the
World Energy Outlook 2008 Launch in Southeast Asia
by
Mr. Nobuo Tanaka
Executive Director
International Energy Agency
Date: Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Time: 9.30 am to 11.30 am
Venue: Casuarina Room
Shangri-La Hotel
22 Orange Grove Road
Singapore 258350
Abstract
Are world oil and gas supplies under threat? How could a new international accord on stabilising greenhouse gas emissions affect global energy markets? The International Energy Agency's 2008 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) addresses these and other important questions, as Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the IEA, will outline in his presentation. WEO-2008 draws on the experience of another turbulent year in energy markets to provide new energy projections to 2030, region by region and fuel by fuel. Incorporating the latest data and policies, WEO-2008 focuses on pressing issues facing the energy sector today.
First, prospects for oil and gas production: Through field-by-field analysis of production trends at 800 of the world's largest oilfields, an assessment of the potential for finding and developing new reserves and a bottom-up analysis of upstream costs and investment, WEO-2008 takes a hard look at future global oil and gas supply.
Second, post-2012 climate scenarios: this report examines the policy approaches necessary to achieve two different emissions scenarios - stabilisation of greenhouse gas emissions at 550 parts per million (ppm) CO2-e and at the still more ambitious level of 450ppm. Assuming a hybrid policy approach, of cap-and-trade systems, sectoral agreements and national policy measures, WEO-2008 spells out the implications for energy demand, prices, investment, air pollution and energy security.
About the Speaker
Mr. Nobuo Tanaka took over as Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) on 1 September 2007. He has extensive national government and international experience within the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo, the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. and the OECD.
Mr. Tanaka was responsible for Japan’s involvement with the IEA and the G7 Energy Ministers’ meeting during the second oil crisis, helped establish the comprehensive energy policy of Japan, oversaw the implementation of Japan’s international nuclear energy policy and co-coordinated domestic environment and energy policy during the Kyoto COP3 negotiation. He served as a Minister for Industry, Trade and Energy at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C from 1998 to 2000. Prior to joining the IEA, Mr. Tanaka was Director for Science, Technology and Industry at the OECD.
Mr. Tanaka has a degree in Economics from the University of Tokyo and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He and his wife, Gloria, have two children.
26 November 2008, Wednesday
Casuarina Room
Shangri-La Hotel
Programme
9.30 am Registration
10.00 am Welcome Address by Prof Chou Siaw Kiang
Executive Director, Energy Studies Institute
10.10 am WEO2008 Launch by Mr Nobuo Tanaka
10.40 am WEO2008 Dialogue with Mr Nobuo Tanaka
11.10 am Refreshments
11.30 am End of Programme
Registration is free but pre-registration is required.
Please email your name, designation and organisation to
esibox2@nus.edu.sg by 24 November 2008.
Due to limited seating capacity, registration is on first-come-first-served basis.
Interested media personnel may contact Ms Teo Kuan Yee, Manager, Corporate Communications, Energy Market Authority, at teo_kuan_yee@ema.gov.sg or (65) 6835 8051.
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