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The golden era for coal is over.
Fatih Birol / Economist
Coal
Golden
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Renewable energy is no longer a niche fuel.
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Energy
Fuel
Niche
Renewable Energy
Longer
Renewable
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Renewables are critical in our fight against climate change.
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Climate Change
Change Fight Climate
Renewables
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I have refused to buy a car for the reasons of sustainability.
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Sustainability
Refused
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We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting.
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Accepted
Definitions
Needs
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The energy sector presents exceptional opportunities for governments and investors.
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Exceptional
Investors
Governments
Presents
Sector
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Tar sands are attractive, but like biofuels, they will never replace Middle East oil.
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Attractive
Middle East
Replace
Sands
Tar
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India needs three things for its energy sector: investment, investment, and investment.
Fatih Birol / Economist
Investment
Sector
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We should not cling to crude down to the last drop - we should leave oil before it leaves us.
Fatih Birol / Economist
Crude
Oil
Cling
Drop
Leaves
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Fossil fuel subsidies are a hand brake as we drive along the road to a sustainable energy future.
Fatih Birol / Economist
Brake
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
Subsidies
Drive
Sustainable
Fossil
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Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.
Fatih Birol / Economist
Fuel
Population
Subsidies
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Industry has to find a way. together with the governments, to find new modes, new modalities for transportation.
Fatih Birol / Economist
Transportation
Together New Way
Governments
Modes
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I think my biggest fear is having another global war which might have been a result of sharing the primary commodities in the world.
Fatih Birol / Economist
War Fear World
Commodities
Global War
Sharing
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I always thought that using more efficient energy sources, pushing the clean energy technologies such as renewable energies are important.
Fatih Birol / Economist
Clean
Clean Energy
Efficient
Energy Sources
Pushing
Energies
Renewable
Sources
Technologies
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Energy is a linchpin of economic prosperity, with energy security, reliability, and affordability key preconditions for sustainable growth.
Fatih Birol / Economist
Economic Prosperity
Energy Security
Reliability
Sustainable
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Governments have always played an important role in energy investment, but this role has been increasing due to both geography and technology.
Fatih Birol / Economist
Geography
Investment
Due
Governments
Important Role
Increasing
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We are considered to be a watchdog, the IEA, and a watchdog fulfils its task only if it barks. So I bark when I think there is a need for barking.
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Task
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Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy.
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Business
Healthy
Suffering
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The developed, oil-consuming countries can do several things to ease the transition to the new energy order. One would be to boost vehicle efficiency.
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Boost
Ease
Vehicle
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We have to use cars much more efficiently. We have to look at alternative technologies of cars such as biofuels or, even more importantly, electric cars.
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Electric
Alternative
Efficiently
Electric Cars
Importantly
Technologies
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We should not only look at the short-term economic benefits of fossil fuels but also at the bad news for climate change. We should therefore not greet the fossil fuel age unconditionally.
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Bad News
Benefits
Climate Change
Economic
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
News
Short Term
Economic Benefits
Fossil
Greet
Therefore
Unconditionally
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Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables.
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Business
Climate
Energy
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I think, for OPEC, the main challenge is to have a price level which brings good profits to them, good incentives for the investments, but at the same time, to prevent prices going to very high levels.
Fatih Birol / Economist
Incentives
Levels
Opec
Prevent
Profits
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There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields in the North Sea and the US are collapsing ... time is running out.
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Running
Believe
Sea
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Humanity's future, to say nothing of its prosperity, will depend on how the world tackles two central energy challenges: securing reliable supplies of affordable energy and switching to efficient low-carbon energy.
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Future
Affordable
Challenges
Efficient
Energy
Humanity
Prosperity
Supplies
Switching
Two
Future Humanity World
Central
Depend
Reliable
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I believe there should be some financial incentives to make the right choice: to make them to buy the right car or not to buy a car but using public transport systems. I believe that these financial incentives are important.
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Incentives
Transport
Right Choice
Systems
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Strong policies and innovation can make the difference for energy security, climate change, air quality, and universal access to modern energy services in parallel - in short, building a secure, affordable, sustainable energy system that is available to all.
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Affordable
Available
Climate Change
Energy Security
Innovation
Secure
Sustainable
Parallel
Policies
Services
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When a person from a community goes and buys a car, he or she should have the incentive, financial incentive, to buy a more efficient, more environment-friendly car. This shouldn't be only left to the intention of the people. We cannot only rely on the ethics or the moral of the people.
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Efficient
Ethics
Intention
Rely
Buys
He Or She
Incentive
We Cannot
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When I look at the many energy-using sectors - such as businesses, households, electricity generators, the transportation sector - I see that the business sector is the one which uses the energy efficiency potential the highest, because they know that using energy more efficiently will also reduce their costs.
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Efficiency
Electricity
Energy Efficiency
Generator
Transportation
Efficiently
Households
Reduce
Sector
Uses
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We are on track for a 3.5 deg C rise by 2040 (i.e. 4.2 deg C relative to pre-industrial)... When I look at this data, the trend is perfectly in line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius, which would have devastating consequences for the planet. We have 5 years to change the energy system, or have it changed
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Data
Track
Years
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If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia meets its obligations. The figures are very simple, you do not need to be an expert. It is enough to know how to do a subtraction. China will grow very quickly, India also, and even Saudi Arabia projections of the 3 Mb/day will not be enough to meet the rise of Chinese demand.
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Chinese
Iraq
Simple
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We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to run out and it is imperative that governments in both producing and consuming nations prepare now for that time. We should not cling to crude down to the last drop – we should leave oil before it leaves us. That means new approaches must be found soon..... The really important thing is that even though we are not yet running out of oil, we are running out of time.
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Running
Mean
Order
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