To meet climate targets and avoid economic collapse, countries such as Iraq need international support in the transition to clean energy• Ali Allawi is deputy prime minister and finance minister of Iraq. Fatih Birol is executive director of the International Energy AgencyIn the Middle East and north Africa, global warming is not a distant threat, but an already painful reality. Rising temperatures are exacerbating water shortages. In Iraq, temperatures are estimated to be rising as much as seven times faster than the global average. Countries in this region are not only uniquely affected by global temperature rises: their centrality to… Source - Full Article https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/01/oil-producing-countries-net-zero-2050-iraq