US energy chief says IEA must ‘drop’ focus on climate change

US Energy SecretaryChris Wrighturged the International Energy Agency on Wednesday to abandon its work on climate change and focus instead on energy security.

“I want to get the other support of all the nations in this noble organisation to work with us, to push the IEA to drop the climate. That’s political stuff,” Wright said at a ministerial meeting of the agency in Paris.

Wright has threatened the pull theUnited Statesout of the IEA — which was founded to coordinate responses to disruptions of supplies after the 1973 oil crisis — unless it reformed the way it operates.

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