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.
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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