However, he took aim at successive British governments for their approach to the net-zero transition.
“The U.K. example is to me heartbreaking — to see the birthplace of the industrial revolution export almost all of its energy-intensive industry, its steelmaking, its petrochemical making, its aluminium fabrication. It’s been tough to watch as an outsider,” Wright said.
Britain, he went on, “has had the largest drop in terms of greenhouse gas emissions of any country in the world, 40 percent. But what you don’t hear as much about is almost three quarters of that drop is attributed to reduced energy consumption.”
That, he claimed, is because “energy intensive manufacturing left the country.”
Wright made the comments ahead of Donald Trump’s second state visit to the U.K. next week, when he will meet Prime Minister Keir Starmer and attend a banquet hosted by King Charles at Windsor Castle.
Over the summer, Trump used a sit-down at his golf course in Scotland to take aim at Britain’s expansion of renewable energy, particularly wind power, which he insisted was harmful to the environment and “a disaster.”