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The Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) is a structured forum for discussing important issues in energy and the environment. The EMF was established in 1976 at Stanford University. The EMF works through a series of ad hoc working groups, each focussing on a particular corporate or policy decision. The EMF provides a non-partisan platform that ensures objective consideration of opposing views.

In recent years, the EMF has made considerable contributions to the economics of climate change, as witnessed in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and to integrated assessment modeling.

John Weyant is the current director of the EMF.

The full list of EMF studies is
EMF01: Energy and the economy
EMF02: Coal in transition: 1980-2000
EMF03: Electric load forecasting: Probing the issue with models
EMF04: Aggregate elasticity of energy demand
EMF05: US oil and gas supply
EMF06: World oil
EMF07: Macroeconomic impacts of energy shocks
EMF08: Industrial energy demand, conservation, and interfuel substitution
EMF09: North American natural gas markets
EMF10: Electricity markets and planning
EMF11: International oil supplies and demands
EMF12: Controlling global carbon emissions: Costs and policy options
EMF13: Markets for energy efficiency
EMF14: Integrated assessment of climate change
EMF15: A competitive electricity industry
EMF16: The costs of the Kyoto Protocol
EMF17: Markets for electricity: Economics and technology
EMF18: Prices and emissions in restructured electricity markets
EMF19: Climate change: Technology strategies and international trade
EMF20: Natural gas, fuel diversity, and North American energy markets
EMF21: Multi-gas mitigation and climate change
EMF22: Climate policy scenarios for stabilization and in transition
EMF23: World natural gas markets and trade
EMF25: Energy demand and efficiency in a growing economy