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IEA: larger clean energy investment needed

The International Energy Agency has called for trillions of investment in clean energy.

The International Energy Agency has called for trillions of investment in clean energy. The organisation says that agreed targets are otherwise in danger of not being met. Their chief energy economist Tim Gould explains what's going wrong and we get reaction from Simon Harrison, head of strategy at consultancy Mott MacDonald, which advises governments and businesses on how to move to cleaner energy sources. Also in the programme, China's banning of Bitcoin mining has prompted what some have called the great mining migration. Alex De Vries, who runs the Digieconomist blog, explains where the miners are going and how much energy are they consuming. Plus, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Frey Lindsay reports on what's being called a housing affordability crisis in Australia, where the cost of buying a home has risen sharply relative to what people earn. And our regular commentator Stephanie Hare makes the case for actively using our senses to transform our experience of the world of work.

(Picture: A solar farm in China. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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Wed 13 Oct 2021 21:32GMT

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  • Wed 13 Oct 2021 21:32GMT