IEA Working Parties and Implementing Agreements
Ensuring energy security and addressing climate change issues in a cost-effective way are the main challenges of energy policies and in the longer term will be solved only through technology cooperation. To encourage collaborative efforts to meet these energy challenges, the IEA created a legal contract – Implementing Agreement – and a system of standard rules and regulations. This allows interested member and non-member governments or other organisations to pool resources and to foster the research, development and deployment of particular technologies.
There are different Working Parties (R&D Programmes) under under the Committee on Energy Research and Technology (CERT). Each of these Working Parties is running a number of international collaborative energy research, development and demonstration projects known as Implementing Agreements.
More information about the Working Parties and their activities can be found here.