International Sustainable Energy Agency

The International Sustainable Energy Agency (ISEA) was a proposed international organization. It was designed to address a world-wide transformation to a nuclear and carbon-free energy based on energy efficiency and renewable energy, such as solar, wind, tides, and geothermal energy. The idea was promoted by different non-governmental organizations. In 2003, the German Advisory Council on Global Change proposed considering the creation of an ISEA circa 2010.
The proponents of the proposal criticized the exiting framework of the international energy institutions saying that "for nearly fifty years, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), dominated by commercial interests, has promoted nuclear energy, while the International Energy Agency (IEA) established in 1974 during the OPEC oil crisis, is mandated to secure adequate supplies of fossil fuel."<ref name=statute/>
The draft statute was presented at the "Friends of the Chair" meeting on the World Summit on Sustainable Development; however, the document was not a part of the official agenda.<ref name=statute/>

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