IEA Meeting Ends Without Unity as US Pushes to Scrap Net Zero

The conflicting positions of US President Donald Trump and major European governments came to the fore at a meeting of the west’s most important energy forecaster.

For the first time in nine years, the International Energy Agency — created by developed nations in the 1970s to oversee energy security — failed to release a communique setting out unified positions on everything from climate to the war in Ukraine. Instead, it issued a “chair’s summary” at the conclusion of a two-day gathering of ministers in Paris on Thursday.