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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damian Carrington Environment editor

Government failure to boost energy efficiency ‘inexplicable’, says IEA

Important energy efficiency measures include people nudging down home thermostats.
Important energy efficiency measures include people nudging down home thermostats. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

The failure by governments and businesses to accelerate energy efficiency efforts is “inexplicable”, according to the head of the International Energy Agency.

Fatih Birol said saving more energy was “utterly essential” in cutting household’s rocketing bills, ending reliance on fossil fuel regimes such as Russia, and rapidly lowering the CO2 emissions driving the climate crisis.

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