U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has lambasted plans to reach net zero emissions by 2050, calling the climate target "a colossal train wreck" that countries will most likely fail to achieve.

His comments, which were first published as part of an interview with the Financial Times on Monday, come as Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum prepare to travel to Milan, Italy, for the Gastech energy conference.

"Net zero 2050 is just a colossal train wreck … It's just a monstrous human impoverishment program and of course there is no way it is going to happen," Wright said in remarks shared by the U.S. Department of Energy on social media platform X.

Net zero refers to the goal of achieving a state of balance between the carbon emitted into the atmosphere and the carbon removed from

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