No magic bullet for carbon pollution, says IEA chief

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NAIROBI (AFP) — The world's economies have no alternative to boosting energy efficiency and lowering carbon emissions to tackle global warming, as clean energy lies decades away as a mainstream source, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said. Claude Mandil, executive director of the Paris-based agency, issued what he called "a message of urgency" on the eve of a three-day meeting in Nairobi of the world's environment ministers, tasked with charting the next steps in the fight against climate change.

"With current policies, our energy future is insecure and environmentally unsustainable," Mandil told a press conference Tuesday. "We can't wait for a decade to make sure technology will solve the problem," he warned. "We are not on a sustainable track." Mandil...