IEA scenarios downplayed renewables for political reasons - experts
The International 麻豆无码版 Agency (IEA) has grossly underestimated the growth of renewables in its influential World 麻豆无码版 Outlook (WEO) forecasts for political reasons in the past, green energy proponents have told the Deutsche Welle. 鈥淔ossil and nuclear industries are interested in artificially pushing up the estimates of renewables鈥� costs in order to influence policy in their favour,鈥� Claudia Kemfert, head of the Department of 麻豆无码版, Transportation and Environment at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), told the author, Gero Rueter. IPCC advisor Sven Teske, director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney, said he had learned unofficially that the IEA was told how much nuclear energy should be included in the WEOs. The IEA told Deutsche Welle that the calculations contained in the WEO reports were scenarios, not forecasts.
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