This Meeting Report provides the Chairman's insight into a two-day workshop held in Oxford on 11-12 May 2005, which brought energy science and technology managers, researchers and other interested individuals from the G8 plus five developing nations (Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa) discussed ways to improve collaboration on clean energy.
The workshop was a follow-up to the initial meeting in Washington, DC in April 2004 on implementing the Evian Action Plan that committed G8 nations and their research organisations to convene to compare and link programmes and priorities on clean energy. This technical workshop was convened to stimulate ideas for making energy research and innovation more effective and to encourage closer working relationships.