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The 2009 International Energy Workshop (IEW), organised in cooperation with the International Center for Climate Governance (a joint initiative of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini) and the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC), will be held in Venice, on 17-19 June, 2009.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers containing new and innovative results referred to scientific or practical experiences focused on the following topics:

• Energy supply and demand
• Oil and gas price forecasts
• Energy efficiency
• Technological innovation in the energy sector
• Economics of climate change
• Adaptation and mitigation policies
• Renewable energies
• The interface of energy, environmental, engineering and economic issues
• Uncertainty in climate-economic modelling
• Energy issues in specific sectors (transports, building, land use and forestry, etc.)

Selected papers will be presented and discussed in thematic sessions, circulated during the meeting and also posted in the meeting website.

Full papers or long abstracts (minimum 1000 words) in .pdf version should be submitted by email to Leo Schrattenholzer, co-director of the International Energy Workshop, before 1 March, 2009.

Final papers will be due two weeks before the meeting for being posted on the meeting website.

For more information on the call for papers, please go to: http://www.iccgov.org/iew2009/files/iew_call%20for%20paper.pdf