86 countries sign up to International Energy Forum's new charter

'There should not be a fear that 2011 will be like 2008'

By Alex Forbes

Given the multiple conflicting challenges faced by the global energy industry, dialogue between energy-producing countries and energy-consuming countries has never been more important. This imperative was recently recognised by the 86 member countries of the International Energy Forum (IEF), the organisation that provides the main platform for such dialogue, when they signed a new Charter at an Extraordinary IEF Ministerial Meeting. In this exclusive interview, the Secretary General of the Forum, Noé van Hulst, gives his views on why the new charter was needed and discusses the impact of 2011's 'Black Swan' events - the Arab Spring and Japan's nuclear crisis - on energy economies. 'If you look at the fundamentals there shouldn't be a fear that 2011 is going to be like 2008.'

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