IEA calls for energy revolution


The International Energy Agency has issues a report on the future of energy technologies which reveals that there is enough oil left on the planet to allow a huge increase in consumption over the next few decades, but that the consequences for the climate of burning that much oil would be alarming. Therefore, it is urging the world to start weaning itself off oil, not because supplies are running out but to avoid "significant change in all aspects of life and irreversible change in the natural environment" as a result of global warming. The IEA has also described international transport as the industrial sector with the greatest challenges to face in stabilising future energy consumption and halving carbon dioxide emissions over the next 40 years.