IEA Clean Coal Centre supports its member’s efforts to make the production, transportation and use of coal sustainable.  The Centre provides this support by providing a unique global resource that the members can reliably draw upon for credible and unbiased information and expertise on all aspects of the sustainable use of coal.  Services are delivered to members through reports and reviews on important topics, advisory services to governments and industry, support for relevant R & D, and by providing networking opportunities that foster international co-operation within and amongst developed and developing countries.

IEA Clean Coal Centre is a collaborative project established in 1975 involving member countries of the International Energy Agency (IEA). The service is governed by representatives of member countries, the European Commission, and industrial sponsors. The IEA Clean Coal Centre programme of work contains studies of considerable significance for all countries involved in the use or supply of coal.

The IEA was established in 1974 within the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). A basic aim of the IEA is to foster co-operation among the twenty-four IEA participating countries in order to increase energy security through diversification of energy supply, cleaner and more efficient use of energy, and energy conservation. This is achieved, in part, through a programme of collaborative research and development of which IEA Clean Coal Centre is by far the largest and the longest established single project