Mounting pressure on International Energy Agency over climate change
Investors from several institutions, science, and climate change advocacy groups as well as private asset owners renewed efforts to pressure the International Energy Agency to re-evaluate the way it produces its influential publication World Energy Outlook. The publication spans hundreds of pages and has proven to have a significant impact on global financial expectations regarding the feasibility of different sustainable energy sources and projects.
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