Climate: International call to end new fossil-fuel search

The International Energy Agency warned this week that new fossil fuel exploration projects must stop immediately if the world is to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, said Leslie Hook and Anjli Raval in the Financial Times. The IEA’s report spelled out “how challenging it will be to get” to net zero emissions and “meet the Paris climate accord goal” of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. As part of an “overhaul of energy supply and demand,” the agency called for a quadrupling of the annual growth of solar and wind power by the end of the decade.