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Clean energy progress report, Paris : IEA, 2011, 71 p. http://www.iea.org/papers/2011/CEM_Progress_Report.pdfThe International Energy Agency on Wednesday released its first Clean  Energy Progress Report, which assesses global deployment of clean energy  technologies and provides recommendations to countries on future action  and spending.The report was presented on 6 April in Abu Dhabi at the second Clean Energy Ministerial  meeting. The report finds that while impressive progress has been made  in developing clean energy technologies in recent years, the success  stories are being overshadowed by surging demand for fossil fuels, which  are outstripping deployment of clean energy technologies. Coal has met  47% of the global new electricity demand over the past decade, eclipsing  clean energy efforts made over the same period of time, which include  improved implementation of energy efficiency measures and rapid growth  in the use of renewable energy sources.In order to change this  status quo, the IEA argues that more aggressive clean energy policies  are required, including the removal of fossil fuel subsidies and the  implementation of transparent, predictable and adaptive incentives for  cleaner energy options. (copyright© IEA)