We are on track for a 3.5 deg C rise by 2040 (i.e. 4.2 deg C relative to pre-industrial)... When I look at this data, the trend is perfectly in line …

- Fatih Birol

If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia meets its obliga…

- Fatih Birol

Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy.

- Fatih Birol

Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also under…

- Fatih Birol

We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to run out and it is imperative that governments…

- Fatih Birol

Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.

- Fatih Birol

We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting.

- Fatih Birol

There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields in the Nort…

- Fatih Birol