On Thursday, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright reiterated his vow to leave the International Energy Agency, stating that Washington would pressure the agency to drop its net-zero goal “in the next year or so.”
On the final day of an IEA ministerial meeting in Paris, Wright stated that the 52-year-old organization has to get back to its original purpose of guaranteeing energy security.
Wright bemoaned the IEA’s adoption of a climate agenda that includes the aim of achieving net zero emissions by 2050, despite the agency’s creation to coordinate responses to significant supply disruptions following the 1973 oil crisis.
“The United States will exert every ounce of pressure we possess to persuade the IEA to ultimately depart from this agenda within the next year or so,” Wright stated during a press conference.
“But regrettably, we would cease to be an IEA member if the organization is unable to return to concentrating on the mission of energy honesty, energy access, and energy security,” he continued.
