The International Energy Agency, an authority highly respected by governments and industry, has just delivered its roadmap to achieve zero net CO2 emissions by 2050. Six months before COP26, in November in Scotland, the message is very clear: no more digging new oil and gas drilling.
Never in its history has the International Energy Agency (IEA) been so categorical.
Tuesday, the reference body on climate change at the global level delivered its roadmap to achieve the objective of carbon neutrality in 2050. The measures they recommend are radical: end, as of now, new drilling to find oil or gas.
And stop the sale of thermal vehicles all over the world by 2035. In return, the agency promises "huge benefits" in terms of employment, economic growth and health.
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Solar and wind energy production multiplied by 8
Oil and gas are a thing of the past, argues the IEA in substance in its roadmap.
Clearly, there is no longer any need to dig new boreholes to extract oil and gas, since 90% of energy production will have to be renewable by 2050.
This necessarily involves the electrification of cars, the eight-fold increase in solar and wind energy production, and the use of hydrogen and carbon storage.
"A very strong need for support from governments"
And that will have a positive effect on employment, swears the IEA.
"This transition, which is major, will have a net, positive effect in terms of employment, that is to say that we will have more creations than destruction", decrypts Lola Vallejo, director of the climate program of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations.
"Even if the report recognizes that there will be a transition and a very strong need for support from governments."
Overall needs will also have to be drastically reduced, via the energy renovation of buildings in particular.
The objective: an overall energy demand reduced by 8% in 2050 compared to that of today.
With two billion more humans.