IEA in the Age of Trump: Policies Will Determine Where We Go From Here

IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

The most important message from the 2016 edition of the annual World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) flagship publication released today, is that “policies will determine where we go from here”. “Paris” has given the international energy sector “a new sense of direction”, notes the IEA. But much stronger policies are needed to keep global warming limited to 2 degrees Celsius, it adds. Its message takes on extra importance in the Age of Trump.

“A new sense of direction pervades the international climate and energy community”, writes Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the IEA. “The particular commitments made in Paris are national, but the determination to realise change is shared.” Words that were no doubt written before the election of Donald Trump.

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