VOL. XLIII

No. 47

20-November-2000

New Energy Technologies: Progress, Challenges and Implications

by Adnan Shihab-Eldin

The following is the executive summary of a background paper prepared for the Seventh International Energy forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 17-19 November 2000. Adnan Shihab-Eldin is Director, Division for Africa, and East Asia and the Pacific, Department of Technical Cooperation, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria.

General

Energy demand and, increasingly, the...