Many Asian countries have already introduced measures to limit consumption. Air conditioning cannot cool below 25 degrees in Bangladesh and 26 degrees in Thailand.<\/p>\n
Some are introducing shorter hours for schools and university and limiting air travel for public officials. Pakistan and the Philippines have introduced a four-day week for public servants.<\/p>\n
Thirty-two countries are members of the IEA, including the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Japan and 24 other European nations. Its role is to act as a global watchdog, providing analysis and recommendations on global energy problems, such as energy security and the transition to clean energy. <\/p>\n
The IEA’s other suggestions for governments, businesses and individuals include:<\/p>\n
Promoting use of public transport<\/p>\n
Giving private cars access to city centres on alternate days<\/p>\n
Encouraging car sharing and efficient driving habits<\/p>\n
Avoiding air travel where possible, especially business flights<\/p>\n
Switching to electric cooking <\/p>\n
It also said there should be a focused effort to preserve liquid petroleum gas for cooking and other essential uses, by switching bio-fuel converted vehicles onto gas and introducing other measures to reduce its use. <\/p>\n
Birol said these proposals were in addition to action taken by IEA member countries earlier this month, when they agreed to release 400 million barrels of oil, 20% of its emergency reserves. <\/p>\n
He said there could be a further release of stocks “if we believe that there is a need” to ” alleviate the pain on the economy”, something he was already discussing with heads of state and governments. <\/p>\n
“I believe the world has not yet well understood the depth of the energy security challenge we are facing,” he added.<\/p>\n
“It is much bigger than what we had in the 1970s… It is also bigger than the natural gas price shock we experienced after the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Asian countries have already introduced measures to limit consumption. Air conditioning cannot cool below 25 degrees in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-350205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}