{"id":4441,"date":"2022-06-22T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T10:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=4441"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:56:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T10:56:20","slug":"iea-warns-europe-winter-is-coming-prepare-for-total-gas-cut-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/world\/iea-warns-europe-winter-is-coming-prepare-for-total-gas-cut-from-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"IEA warns Europe: Winter is coming, prepare for total gas cut from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Europe should be ready in case Russian gas is completely cut off, said International Energy Agency (IEA) chief Fatih Birol has warned Europe. &#8220;The nearer we are coming to winter, the more we understand Russia\u2019s intentions&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Financial Times reported that Birol said the \u201ccuts are geared towards avoiding Europe filling storage and increasing Russia\u2019s leverage in the winter months.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>European countries are struggling to fire up old coal-fired power stations, amid crisis despite concerns about rising carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FT reported that &#8216;Germany, Austria, Italy and the Netherlands announced their plans to step-up use of coal for power generation, while Sweden and Denmark said they would also launch emergency measures to curb the use of natural gas.&#8217;<br>\u201cI believe there will be more and deeper demand measures [taken by governments in Europe] as winter approaches,\u201d Birol said.<br><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Europe should be ready in case Russian gas is completely cut off, said International Energy Agency (IEA) chief Fatih Birol has warned Europe. &#8220;The nearer we are coming to winter, the more we understand Russia\u2019s intentions&#8221;. Financial Times reported that Birol said the \u201ccuts are geared towards avoiding Europe filling storage and increasing Russia\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,6],"tags":[265,439,226,199,2609],"class_list":["post-4441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-world","tag-europe","tag-gas","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}