Transcript Zero Episode 32: From Rich Man’s Energy Club to Climate Champion
Read a transcript of the conversation between podcast host Akshat Rathi and Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency.
Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), during a Bloomberg Television interview in January.
Photographer: Hollie Adams/BloombergHow do you rebuild an international organization for the climate era? That’s what the Paris-based International Energy Agency has done over the past few years. Founded in 1974 to ensure access to oil supplies for its members, the IEA has become a leading voice on the need to rapidly cut emissions. On this week’s episode of Zero, host Akshat Rathi sat down with Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, to ask when global emissions will peak, if it’s possible to get there sooner and why India’s solar revolution is keeping him optimistic.
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