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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey, Matthew Taylor and Damian Carrington

Climate chaos certain if oil and gas mega-projects go ahead, warns IEA chief

The International Energy Agency's executive director, Fatih Birol
The International Energy Agency's executive director, Fatih Birol, said: ‘We have the chance to make this a historic turning point to a cleaner and more secure energy system.’ Composite: Guardian Design/Reuters/EPA/Getty/Sipa/Rex/Shutterstock

The world’s leading energy economist has warned against investing in large new oil and gas developments, which would have little impact on the current energy crisis and soaring fuel prices but spell devastation to the planet.

Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), was responding to an investigation in the Guardian that revealed fossil fuel companies were planning huge “carbon bomb” projects that would drive climate catastrophe.

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