The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) has just issued a Malthusian tract, entitled “Net Zero By 2050, a Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector,” outlining exactly how the world can meet the COP26’s net zero carbon emissions goal by 2050, right in line with the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Great Reset plan. The IEA describes itself as an “autonomous intergovernmental agency operating within the OECD framework,” but its director, Turkish economist Fatih Birol, is hardly independent. He is the head of the World Economic Forum’s Energy Advisory Board, right in league with the imperial bankers seeking to reduce the world’s population. As the IEA’s press release announcing the report notes, it was the U.K. government’s COP26 Presidency that requested the report in order to “inform the high-level negotiations that will take place at the 26th Conference of the parties (COP26) of the United Nations Climate Change Framework Convention in Glasgow in November.” https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-by-2050
The report’s fundamental premise is that even if governments were to fully achieve the pledges they’ve made to reduce carbon emissions, it wouldn’t be enough to reach the goal of net zero emissions by 2050. In order to tackle the “greatest challenge humankind has ever faced,” Birol says, dramatic action must be taken immediately—no time to waste. The path to achieve these goals is “narrow but achievable.” So, what does that entail? Among the 400 “milestones” the report proposes for reaching the required goals, as the press release explains, are, starting right now, “no investment in new fossil fuel supply projects, and no further final investment decisions for new unabated coal plants. By 2035, there are no sales of new internal combustion engine passenger cars, and by 2040, the global electricity sector has already reached net-zero emissions.”
For this fantastical and murderous plan to work, the IEA says, governments are going to have to “quickly increase and reprioritize their spending on research and development—as well as on demonstrating and deploying clean energy technologies.” The net zero pathway will require the “immediate and massive deployment of all available clean and efficient energy technologies,” including annual additions of solar PV to reach 630 gigawatts by 2030 and those of wind power to reach 390 gigawatts. “Together, this is four times the record level set in 2020.” The report offers assurances that investments in “renewables” could increase global GDP by 4% in 2050, and create millions of new jobs, in contrast to where these parameters would be, based on “current trends.” Global energy demand is expected to drop by 8% by 2050, the report predicts, due to greater renewals capacity and “efficiency.” By 2050, fossil fuels are expected to account for only one-fifth of global energy supply, down from four-fifths currently.
The IEA optimistically points to the “sustained support and participation from citizens” and great international collaboration it says will ensure the “roadmap’s” success—discounting the existence of the Schiller Institute’s international anti-Malthusian resistance movement as well as developing sector governments that aren’t about to swallow this fascist garbage.
