IEA

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Proper noun

IEA

1. Initialism of International Energy Agency: an autonomous intergovernmental organization.
   • 2022 January 17, Jillian Ambrose, “China’s coal production hit record levels in 2021”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The IEA’s most recent report, published last week, found the steepest ever increase in global electricity demand last year was stoked by a 9% increase in coal use compared with the year before, or more than half of the global increase in power demand, to reach an all-time peak.

2. (politics) Initialism of Institute of International and European Affairs: an Irish policy think tank.
3. (historical, military) Initialism of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: a totalitarian Islamic state established by the Taliban.
4. (ethnography, anthropology) Initialism of Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography: a Russian institute of research, specializing in ethnographic studies of cultural and physical anthropology.
5. (UK politics, economics) Initialism of Institute of Economic Affairs: a British neoliberal think tank.
   • 2012 August 22, Andy Beckett, “Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     "The European economic and welfare model – I think it's over," says Mark Littlewood, director of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), like the CPS a veteran British free-market thinktank reinvigorated by current possibilities.

6. (epidemiology) Initialism of International Epidemiological Association.
7. Initialism of International Ergonomics Association.
8. (India) Initialism of Indian Evidence Act, the former evidence act of India.

Anagrams

• EAI, EIA