Changing the Mix: Renewable Energy and the Continuing Need for Fossil Fuels (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries‪)‬

OPEC cares passionately about world energy as a whole and not just about petroleum. I Cleaner, safer, and easier energy. Energy. for development. Energy that can enrich the lives of even the world's poorest communities. A key mandate of our Secretariat in Vienna, Austria, is to conduct research into all matters of world energy that relate to petroleum, and this also includes such topics as sustainable development, environmentalism, and world trade. This is to ensure that OPEC and its 11 Member Countries always have an up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest developments in the world energy industry., how these developments fit in with the objectives and the values of the Organization, and how they can best be articulated in an informed and constructive manner, in both oral and written form, to audiences of many different persuasions and agendas.