Foreword by M. BOITEUX.
This second project by the World Energy Conference updates the global supply and demand energy perspectives to 2000-2020. Its major specific feature is the work in common of some thirty regional experts from 18 countries and 9 organizations among which the World Bank, the EEC and the OPEC. This decentralized forecasting approach, in the context of two "moderate" and "limited" economic growth scenarios, made it possible to follow the energy evolutions of the great world regions, according to the various energy sources and to the demographic and economic projections.