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US Renews Threat to Withdraw From IEA Over Climate Advocacy
Energy Secretary Wright demands the IEA focus on energy security and oil and gas demand, warning of US withdrawal if climate advocacy continues, citing IEA reform progress as insufficient.
- At Paris ministerial talks, US Energy Secretary Wright warned the US would withdraw from the IEA if it remains focused on promoting green energy, as he said ahead of the meetings.
- Amid the IEA's shift toward climate work, Wright said a 'climate cult' has driven up energy prices in Europe and diverted the agency from energy security forecasting.
- Republican lawmakers moved last summer to cut funding to the IEA, which last November dropped its peak oil demand forecast, while Wright reassured Europe it remains a `rock solid, reliable supplier of LNG`.
- Tensions have escalated in recent months, with officials warning that Europe's dependence on US LNG after the Greenland spat raises security concerns and Dan Jorgensen calling it 'a wake-up call.'
- Historically, the IEA was founded in 1974 to coordinate responses to supply disruptions, and Wright has framed the US stance as reforming the IEA or facing withdrawal.
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Chris Wright threatened last year to pull the United States out of the IEA — which was founded to coordinate responses to major disruptions of supplies after the 1973 oil crisis — unless it reformed the way it operates.
The meeting of ministers of the countries that are part of the International Energy Agency (IEA) that is being held this Wednesday in Paris is a reflection of the tension that is being experienced in the face of the impulse to the green transition. Because in the face of this transition to renewables there are repeated attempts by the Donald Trump administration to stop it within and outside its borders, threatening even to abandon the IEA—which…
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