Government failure to boost energy efficiency ‘inexplicable’, says IEA

Saving energy is utterly essential' to cut bills, end reliance on Russian oil and gas and slash emissions says agency

The failure by governments and businesses to accelerate energy efficiency efforts is inexplicable", according to the head of the International Energy Agency.

Fatih Birol said saving more energy was utterly essential" in cutting household's rocketing bills, ending reliance on fossil fuel regimes such as Russia, and rapidly lowering the CO2 emissions driving the climate crisis.