"The Trump administration this week threatened to pull the United States out of the world’s leading energy agency unless it abandoned its focus on tackling climate change.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said that the International Energy Agency had become a “climate advocacy organization” and should stop publishing its annual road map for how countries could eliminate their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions by 2050, known as its “net zero scenario.”
“We don’t need a net zero scenario, that’s ridiculous, it’s not going to happen,” Mr. Wright, a former gas executive, said on Tuesday at a side event during the agency’s annual meeting of energy ministers in Paris. He said he wanted the agency to “focus on energy security,” but added that “if they insist that it’s so dominated and infused with climate stuff, then we’re out.”
The International Energy Agency is enormously influential, and its data and reports on everything from oil stockpiles to electric vehicle sales are frequently cited by energy companies and investors as a basis for long-term planning. The United States provides around 14 percent of the agency’s budget and is among its 32 member states."
Brad Plumer reports for the New York Times February 19, 2026.
SEE ALSO:
"Europe Defies Trump Team Over IEA Climate Fight" (E&E News)
