The Global Home of Energy Dialogue

The International Energy Forum (IEF) is the global home of energy dialogue. With a membership spanning all six continents, IEF Ministers represent producing, consuming, and transit countries across both established and emerging energy supply chains.

Sharing Perspectives to Unlock Global Potential

IEF Dialogue involves different stakeholder realities, engaging varied and often opposing interests and views to move from coexistence to cooperation. The IEF does not seek to impose consensus but fosters market confidence and policy cohesion through neutral and open, dialogue between producers and consumers across all energy systems. In a world where energy realities are complex and evolving, the IEF provides a unique platform where diverse realities meet and shape shared solutions, responsive to change and recognizing differences.

Broad and Balanced Mandate

With a broad mandate to examine all energy issues, the IEF places particular emphasis on Energy Security, Market Transparency, and Energy Transitions.

Neutral Platform for Collective Progress

The IEF, through its neutral platform, fosters the inclusive engagement and mutual understanding needed to bridge the diverse interests of its members and the broader stakeholder community, creating the space to identify, test, and better understand differences with the aim of deepening mutual understanding, and facilitating better-informed decisions.

Dialogue as the Foundation for Cooperation

The IEF is founded on the belief that ongoing dialogue builds trust, deepens understanding, and enables cooperation across diverse perspectives. This open and inclusive approach allows the IEF to anticipate risks, bridge divides, and build the mutual understanding needed to navigate complexity, aligning efforts on energy security, emissions reduction, efficiency, and the growth of renewables, nuclear and new clean energy technologies.

Why Dialogue Matters

Access to affordable, modern and sustainable energy has never been universal, and for billions, it remains out of reach. The fast-changing global energy landscape is shaped by geoeconomic market shifts, multifaceted transitions, and complex trade-offs in a world more geopolitically uncertain yet increasingly economically interdependent, making dialogue of vital importance.

Resilience Depends on Relationships

In today's interconnected world, disruptions are inevitable. Building resilience provides the first line of defence, but it is not defined by spare capacity and storage or the flexibility of technical systems alone. Its strength lies equally in emergency preparedness coordination and nurturing the relationships and goodwill that enable decisive collective action when it counts.

Dialogue Enables Durable Solutions

Change and complexity are constant. Ongoing dialogue enables us to navigate evolving policy and market realities, by fostering mutual trust confidence and understanding.