In its World Energy Outlook 2008 published the International Energy Agency (IEA) warns of the dire global consequences of an inadequate response to the climate crisis, and calls for a radical retooling of the global energy system.

The report recognises that renewables are key for this revolution, with wind power playing a leading role. The wind industry welcomes the upward adjustment of the expected development of wind energy compared to its 2006 Outlook, with the IEA's most ambitious scenario coming close to GWEC's own moderate projections for global installed capacity of more than 700,000MW of wind energy by 2020.