Dr Energy foresees ‘catastrophic’ temperature rise

Nieuws - 22 maart 2019

The IEA’s Executive Director Dr Fatih Birol visited TU Delft. The IEA deals in facts, and the ones that Birol presented in his speech were sobering at best.

As the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Dr Fatih Birol is primarily occupied with energy and energy markets. The yearly IEA publication World Energy Outlook was his initiative. But since climate change has its roots in the energy sector, greenhouse gas emissions are of major interest to the IEA, as is the campaign to provide more people access to electricity (a little under 1 billion people are still deprived of power).