Greta Thunberg on Thursday urged IEA executive director Fatih Birol to stop the global energy industry and the financiers who support them from fuelling carbon investments
The world’s most powerful activist confronted the man in charge of regulating global energy in Davos on Thursday, demanding an end to fossil fuel investments.
During a round-table discussion with Birol on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting, activists said they had presented a “cease and desist” letter to CEOs calling on them to stop opening new oil, gas and coal extraction sites.
The IEA chief said there was no reason to justify investments in new oil fields because of the energy crunch, saying by the time these became operational the climate crisis would be worse.“We can have slight legitimate optimism,” he said, adding: “Last year the amount of renewables coming to the market was record high.”
Nakate, who held a solitary protest outside the Ugandan parliament for several months in 2019, said the fund “is still an empty bucket with no money at all.”In 2019, the then 16-year-old Thunberg took part in the main WEF meeting, famously telling leaders that “our house is on fire.” She returned to Davos the following year.
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