Chris Wright, Trump's energy secretary of choice, calls the UN's net-zero emissions plan 'sinister'

Chris Wright, Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of energy, has a clear position on the United Nations' net-zero emissions plan, calling it a "sinister goal."

"Net zero 2050: zero chance of this happening, but it’s actually a sinister goal because we spend an insane amount of money pretending we’re going to actually achieve this," Wright said in a keynote speech to oil and gas industry figures earlier this year, as reported by The Telegraph.

In that regard, the energy secretary nominee detailed that the result of the plan has been to "make energy more expensive, less reliable and impoverish people."

In addition, LinkedIn censored a video of Wright regarding the subject in which he argued that it is a lie that progress is being made in an energy transition. He noted that, in his view, the terms climate crisis, energy transition, carbon pollution, clean energy and dirty energy are all "destructive deceptions" that cause anxiety in children.

The U.N. has outlined the steps to be followed from the time the Paris Climate Accords were signed 2015 until 2050, the year in which it says "the transition to net-zero emissions must be complete."

Within this scheme, the penultimate step is the goals that would have to be achieved between 2030 and 2035: a 42% and 57% reduction in emissions these respective years and ensuring that global warming does not exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius. These targets are not being met and are beginning to seem utopian, a situation that is especially worrying to the U.N.