Last week, the Trump administration threatened to drop out of the influential Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) unless the agency changes the way it incorporates climate, energy and emissions information into its forecasting.
The comments came from U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright during the IEA’s annual meeting of energy ministers in Paris. At the heart of the matter is that officials of the Trump administration want the agency to stop providing a “net-zero” forecasting scenario in which neutral greenhouse gas emissions are achieved by 2050 and fossil fuel use plummets.
