Sustainable Recovery: World Energy Outlook Special Report

Sustainable Recovery, from the IEA’s flagship World Energy Outlook series, sets out a plan that offers an energy sector roadmap for governments to spur economic growth, create millions of jobs and put global emissions into structural decline. By integrating energy policies into government responses to the economic shock caused by the Covid-19 crisis, the plan would also accelerate the deployment of modern, reliable and clean energy technologies and infrastructure.

In an analysis carried out in cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, the report shows that the set of policy actions and targeted investments over the 2021-2023 period that are outlined in the Sustainable Recovery Plan can achieve a range of significant outcomes, notably:
• boost global economic growth by an average of 1.1 percentage points a year
• save or create roughly 9 million jobs a year
• reduce annual global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions by a total of 4.5 billion tonnes by the end of the plan