IEA chief lauds U.S. Inflation Reduction Act as most important climate agreement since Paris accord

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61% : At the same time, Birol said this energy market crisis had ushered in a "big boost" to clean energy development and the biggest driver of renewable energy growth was energy security.
48% : She added that the legislation was also "an important bill for us in that it does provide subsidies, not just for carbon capture but for electric vehicles, for lithium and for many other things that will help the energy transition."Asked whether she was in favor of bringing an end to fossil fuel subsidies, Hollub replied, "There has been hardly any game-changing and transformational technologies that have ever been developed in the world that did not at some point have some sort of subsidy."To be sure, the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas, is the chief driver of the climate emergency.

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