International Energy Agency: Difference between revisions

In 2021, the IEA was publicly criticized by more than 30 international academics and researchers at [[Our World in Data]] for publishing its detailed, global energy data behind paywalls, "[making] it unusable in the public discourse and [preventing] many researchers from accessing it".<ref name="ambrose-2021">{{cite news |last1=Ambrose |first1=Jillian |date=10 December 2021 |title=Energy watchdog urged to give free access to government data |work=The Guardian |location=London, United Kingdom |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/10/academics-urge-iea-to-give-free-access-to-national-energy-data |access-date=2021-12-10 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name="ritchie-2021">{{cite journal |last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |author-link=Hannah Ritchie |date=5 October 2021 |title=Covid's lessons for climate, sustainability and more from our World in Data |url=https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-021-02691-4/d41586-021-02691-4.pdf |journal=Nature |volume=598 |issue=7879 |pages=9 |bibcode=2021Natur.598....9R |doi=10.1038/d41586-021-02691-4 |issn=1476-4687 |pmid=34611360 |access-date=2021-11-10 |s2cid=238411009}} {{open access}}</ref><ref name="roser-and-ritchie-2021">{{cite web |last1=Roser |first1=Max |last2=Ritchie |first2=Hannah |date=7 October 2021 |title=The International Energy Agency publishes the detailed, global energy data we all need, but its funders force it behind paywalls: let's ask them to change it |url=https://ourworldindata.org/iea-open-data |access-date=2021-10-08 |work=Our World in Data |location=Oxford, United Kingdom}} {{open access}}</ref><ref name="schaefer-2021">{{cite web |last1=Schäfer |first1=Malte |display-authors=etal |date=8 December 2021 |title=Open letter to the International Energy Agency and its member countries: please remove paywalls from global energy data and add appropriate open licenses |url=https://forum.openmod.org/t/open-letter-to-iea-and-member-countries-requesting-open-data/2949#open-letter-to-the-international-energy-agency-and-its-member-countries-please-remove-paywalls-from-global-energy-data-and-add-appropriate-open-licenses-1 |access-date=2022-01-19 |publisher=Open Energy Modelling Initiative}} Schäfer is the coordinating author. {{open access}}</ref> The authors of the Our World in Data open letter suggested that "countries that fund the IEA drop the requirement to place data behind paywalls and increase their funding".<ref name="roser-and-ritchie-2021" />