Reuters reports that OPEC secretary general Haitham Al Ghais has accused the International Energy Agency (IEA) of vilifying the oil and gas industry.

Recently the IEA has said that the fossil fuel industry was facing a "moment of truth" and producers would have to choose between worsening the climate crisis or clean energy.

Al Ghais responded that such a binary choice ignored issued of security and cost in a statement, adding that, "it also unjustly vilifies the industry as being behind the climate crisis".

OPEC and the IEA have a history of being a loggerheads over the way forward, and ahead of COP28 there have been allegations from the BBC that the United Arab Emirates had planned to use its position as the climate talks host to make oil and gas deals.

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