The 2005 meeting of the INTERNATIONAL ENERGY WORKSHOP (IEW) was held in Kyoto, Japan on 5-7 July 2005.

The meeting focused on the following topics:

• Managing uncertainty and climate change
• Abrupt climate change
• Global energy resources
• UNFCCC/Post-Kyoto regimes
• Socioeconomic effects of an unsustainable energy-climate system
• Hydrogen economy
• Energy price and its economic impacts
• Technological responses to climate change

The workshop was jointly organized/sponsored by:

Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)	Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI)	Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ)	Japan Society of Energy and Resources (JSER)	New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization
Energy Modeling Forum (EMF)	International Energy Agency (IEA, including ETSAP)	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)