A workshop held in Paris, France was jointly organized by the International Energy Agency (IEA), International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on March 16-17, 2009 to bring together key actors in standardization, the private sector and public policy.  The purpose was to map out the most important standardization areas that will be required to support energy efficiency and carbon reduction objectives.  LBNL researcher Aimee McKane made a presentation on Achieving Sustainable Energy Efficiency in Industry, moderated a session on industrial systems energy efficiency, and served as a rapporteur.

The meeting sponsors plan to use key findings from the meeting as inputs into relevant high-level international processes including:
    * IEA’s Governing Board for consideration in advance of the 2009 IEA Ministerial meeting
    * 2009 G8 Summit in Italy
    * UNFCCC’s COP-15 meeting in Copenhagen
    * International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation
    * ISO and IEC strategic and technical groups dealing with energy efficiency and renewables

For a summary of outcomes, see International Energy Agency [1] and ANSI [2].