Climate change will be a key topic of discussion at the International Energy Agency's biannual ministerial meeting in Paris in November, an official from the organisation said Monday.

Efforts to mitigate climate change will be an important agenda item at the meeting, the IEA's Chief Economist Fatih Birol told The Wall Street Journal at the launch in London of the agency's report on redrawing the energy climate map.

The IEA, which advises rich industrialized countries on energy policy, laid out four recommendations to help limit climate change in its report.

The agency called on governments to act to adopt better energy-efficiency measures, cut back on the use of inefficient coal-fired power plants, minimize methane emissions from oil and gas production, and accelerate the removal of fossil fuel subsidies.

"The key issue that we are going to discuss [in November] are these four policies we just put forward," Mr. Birol said, adding that other items on the agenda had yet to be decided.

The meeting will be attended by the group's 28 member countries, members of the energy business sector and seven key partner countries, the IEA's executive director Maria van der Hoeven said.

Earlier this year the Paris-based energy watchdog said it was interested in deepening its ties with emerging economies as their role in global energy markets increases.

The seven partner countries will be China, Russia, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Mexico and Brazil.

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