Thread by @FuelOnTheFire

Great article by @ChloeFarand on how @IEABirol avoids addressing the contradiction at the heart of the @IEA: it wants to be relevant to the #energytransition but remains tied to #FossilFuels

IEA needs to #FixTheWEO

climatechangenews.com/2020/07/27/gre…

“IEA was set up and designed for a different era and it needs a radical transformation if it's still to have relevance in the modern era” - @KingsmillBond

“Given the IEA’s rhetoric and calls for leadership, omitting 1.5C is a pretty significant oversight” - @mckinnon_hannah

“By sitting on the fence and backing all forms of energy, there is a danger that they will perpetuate the unsustainable pathway we are on rather than showing what could be achieved in the future.” - @PWooders

By failing to provide policy guidance for a managed transition away from fossil fuels, IEA is doing “disservice” to producers. “History shows that failing to manage this process can have severe long-term economic, social & political implications” - Claudia Strambo of @SEIresearch

“The more time elapses with the IEA not developing a 1.5C scenario, the more time it gives for other models to emerge that could supersede it. It risks losing its influence if it doesn’t catch up with the world’s direction of travel towards 1.5C” - @CleanPowerSue

2020 is the year "for clean energy transition and how to prevent climate change"; "Our message to the oil industry here in Houston is invest, invest, invest” - @IEABirol