IEA removes climate change from top priorities, yielding to US pressure
European countries like France, Spain and the UK urged the IEA to continue its focus on net zero.
The International Energy Agency has removed the fight against climate change from its top priorities for the next two years after the US threatened to withdraw its funding to the agency if that was not the case.
In closing a tense 2026 IEA Ministerial Meeting, the agency laid out its priority topics for the coming two years: energy security, critical minerals, Ukraine, energy access and clean cooking, nuclear energy, artificial intelligence and innovation. Gone is the wording on “accelerating the clean energy transition in line with 1.5°C”, which was a top priority at the previous ministerial meeting.
