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World energy outlook scenarios

International Energy Agency — World Energy Outlook

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Epistemic Completeness Score — 71% · High Completeness

Verdict

The outlook is careful to label its scenarios as exploratory rather than predictive, and assumption tables are published — both strong practices. The audit finds two recurring issues: the 'stated policies' scenario is framed in ways that invite reading it as a central forecast, and the gap between announced pledges and stated policies is quantified but given less prominence than the headline pathway charts. Uncertainty around critical-mineral supply and grid investment is acknowledged but bounded narrowly relative to the specialist literature.

Metric: Energy demand and supply pathways to 2050Timeframe: Multi-decade scenario horizonScope: Global energy systemRuntime: 22.6s

01 / Boundary

Boundary sensitivity

74

Would shifting the start or end date change the trend?

Long horizons with explicit scenario structure; the choice of policy cut-off date for scenario construction is stated but its sensitivity is not shown.

Baseline used
Stated-policies scenario constructed from a declared policy cut-off date
Defensible alternative
Sensitivity to the policy cut-off date is not presented; earlier or later cut-offs shift the central pathway

02 / Confounders

Confounder accounting

68

Which secondary drivers went unmentioned?

Macroeconomic and price assumptions are published, but demand-response and behavioural channels are thinner than in the academic literature.

  • —Policy cut-off date sensitivity not shown
  • —Critical-mineral supply risk bounded narrowly relative to specialist studies
  • —Behavioural and demand-response channels underweighted

03 / Uncertainty

Uncertainty fidelity

72

Were confidence intervals and caveats preserved?

Scenarios are explicitly non-predictive, yet presentation emphasis (chart ordering, headline pathways) partially undercuts the disclaimer.

Counter-perspectives

  • Carbon Brief — scenario analysis coverage

    Independent analysts have documented how scenario labels and chart emphasis shape interpretation more than the methodological caveats do.

    Carbon Brief

  • IPCC AR6 — mitigation pathway literature

    The broader pathway literature spans a wider range of demand-side and feasibility assumptions than the outlook's scenario set.

    IPCC

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