If Donald Trump wins the presidential election, he is expected to push the International Energy Agency IEA, for which the United States provides about a quarter of the funding, back to energy security and fossil fuel supply, Reuters reported on Thursday, quoting sources with knowledge of the matter. The Paris-based IEA was created to ensure the security of supply to developed economies in the aftermath of the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s.
president in November, is likely to pressure the IEA to pivot back to maximizing fossil fuel supply, according to former Trump Administration officials and people familiar with Trump’s thinking on energy who spoke to Reuters. Trump has not expressed any views regarding the IEA in public, while his campaign declined to comment on the report for Reuters. According to Reuters’s sources, Trump would seek to replace the current executive director of the IEA, Fatih Birol.