the global food crisis, that is affecting millions of people around the world. now on bbc news, hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. europeans are already shivering at the prospect of a full on energy crisis this coming winter. partly, it s fallout from russia s invasion of ukraine and the disruption to supplies of oil and gas. but there is a bigger global picture. the world is still dangerously reliant on fossil fuels, even as climate change makes decarbonisation ever more urgent. my guest is boss of the international energy agency, fatih birol. will the much vaunted transition to clean energy be derailed by a short term energy panic? fatih birol in paris, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, thank you very much. let me start, if i may, mr birol, with words of yours. not long ago you said, what the world is going through today is a major, it might be the first, global energy crisis, in terms of depth and complexity. with words like th
more urgent. my guest is boss of the international energy agency, fatih birol. will the much vaunted transition to clean energy be derailed by a short term energy panic? fatih birol in paris, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, thank you very much. let me start, if i may, mr birol, with words of yours. not long ago you said, what the world is going through today is a major, it might be the first, global energy crisis in terms of depth and complexity. with words like that, aren t you in danger of turning an energy problem into an energy panic? i don t think so. what i am trying to do is that people understand the dimensions of the crisis we are in and to take corresponding measures. if we are not able to read the game, how deep and how complex our global energy crisis is, then we might not be able to get the right solutions and give the right answers. for example, when we look at europe, we have seen on 2a february, the invasion of russia, and the international energy
space station after 2024, ending two decades of cooperation with the united states and other countries. washington has described the announcement as unfortunate. the head of the russian space agency said moscow would instead build its own orbiting station. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. europeans are already shivering at the prospect of a full on energy crisis this coming winter. partly, it s fallout from russia s invasion of ukraine and the disruption to supplies of oil and gas. but there is a bigger global picture. the world is still dangerously reliant on fossil fuels, even as climate change makes decarbonisation ever more urgent. my guest is boss of the international energy agency, fatih birol. will the much vaunted transition to clean energy be derailed by a short term energy panic? fatih birol in paris, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, thank you very much. let me start, if i may, mr birol, with words of yours.
into an energy panic? i don t think so. what i am trying to do is that people understand the dimensions of the crisis we are in and to take corresponding measures. if we are not able to read the game, how deep and how complex our global energy crisis is, then we might not be able to get the right solutions and give the right answers. for example, when we look at europe, we have seen on 2a february, the invasion of russia, and the international energy agency, just one week after, the 1st of march, we came up with a ten point plan how to reduce russia s reliance er, europe s reliance on russia.
what i am trying to do is that people understand the dimensions of the crisis we are in and to take corresponding measures. if we are not able to read the game, how deep and how complex our global energy crisis is, then we might not be able to get the right solutions and give the right answers. for example, when we look at europe, we have seen on 2a february, the invasion of russia, and the international energy agency, just one week after, the 1st of march, we came up with a ten point plan how to reduce russia s reliance er, europe s reliance on russia. and i see that not much happened in the last four months, but we are, slowly but surely, in europe, putting measures together how to go through this difficult winter in front of us. so it was a necessary alarm