Top Official Warns Worldwide Energy Crisis ‘Will Get Worse’ Soon

Top Official Warns Worldwide Energy Crisis ‘Will Get Worse’ Soon
Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, addresses a session on day five of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow on Nov. 4, 2021. Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images
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The head of the International Energy Agency warned that the global energy crisis hasn’t yet hit its peak and will likely worsen in the northern hemisphere during the winter months.

“The world has never witnessed such a major energy crisis in terms of its depth and its complexity,” IEA director Fatih Birol told an audience in Sydney. “We might not have seen the worst of it yet ... this is affecting the entire world,” continued.

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