Oil Change International IEA’s first 1.5°C model closes the door on new fossil fuel extraction May 18, 2021By Kelly TroutBlog Post, Energy Transitions & Futures, News For years, we’ve seen fossil fuel companies and governments justify their fossil fuel expansion plans – from the TransMountain tar sands pipeline expansion to Arctic oil drilling to the Adani coal mine – on the backs of scenarios from the International Energy Agency (IEA). This was possible because, until today, the world’s most influential energy modelling agency had not produced a scenario actually aligned with the full ambition of the Paris Agreement goals. That’s true no longer.