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By Rhod Mackenzie

OPEC disagrees with the forecast of the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol, that demand for fossil fuels will peak and decline by 2030, the organisation said.

Earlier in the week, Birol wrote about the future of fossil fuels in a Financial Times column,...

By Rhod Mackenzie

China's post-pandemic recovery will lead to a sharp rise in oil demand in the coming months, the IEA predicts. Until now, Western analysis has been dominated by scepticism about the prospects for the Chinese economy. Oil prices responded to the agency's report with growth. This w...