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French President Emmanuel Macron on Dec. 6 presented International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol with the Legion of Honor for his major contributions to global energy and climate issues.

Countries that fail to meet the climate commitments will receive warnings at the UN's next climate summit slated for 2023, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Nov. 7.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency in an interview on the sidelines of the COP26 conference, Fatih Birol said the COP26 Presidency appointed the IEA to monitor and report on countries' progress.

Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has been named one of the most influential 100 persons of 2021 by Time, a political magazine based in New York City, United States.

Birol, 63, who has been the executive director of the agency since 2015, is the only Turkish person that made it to Time's annual influencer list this year.

French Energy company Schneider Electric's Cluster President for Turkey and Central Asia Countries, Bora Tuncer, presented the company's "Positive Energy Award" to Fatih Birol in a ceremony in Istanbul on Dec 25. "Sustainable energy is the future and the technology will be decisive for that," Bora said during the event.

The governing board of the International Energy Agency has re-elected Fatih Birol as executive director for a second term.

A pregnant Syrian woman and a baby who were brutally murdered in Turkey's northwest were laid to rest in Syria's Idlib on July 9. 

Nine month pregnant Emani el-Rahmun, 20, was raped and killed with her 10-month-old son Halaf el-Rahmun in Sakarya's Kaynarca district on July 6, causing outrage across Turkey. 

The last days of 2015 saw a dramatic increase in air pollution levels in Istanbul. 

One wishes the continuation of alarming levels of pollution in Turkey's big cities since nothing looks poised to push the government to endorse an energy policy sensitive to climate change.

Turkey needs a permanent and coherent public policy for nuclear energy, according to the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA). 

The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria presents a major challenge for the investment necessary to prevent an oil shortage in the next decade, the International Energy Agency?s (IEA?s) top economist said Feb. 17.