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Wright Addresses the United Nations Security Council, Mar. 5, 2026

March 5, 2026 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:06:59

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright addressed the United Nations Security Council, in the Department of Energy’s upload of the March 5, 2026 session, thanking Ambassador Waltz for inviting him to lead a U.S.-chaired conversation on critical minerals, energy, and resources. Wright opened with gratitude to the American military and a condemnation of the Iranian regime, which he said has for 47 years spread chaos and instability; President Trump has been clear, he said — Iran’s regime will not prevail.

Wright argued the session’s topic is fundamental to prosperity and peace: “We need more energy, not less energy. And we need it now.” Only a billion people, he said, live lives recognizable to those in the room, seven billion aspire to them, and the only road there is massively more energy — while two billion people still cook and heat with wood, charcoal, or dung indoors, with indoor air pollution killing over two million people a year, as he cited the estimate. He closed by urging nations to safeguard the world’s energy and natural resource supply — keeping trade lanes from the Panama Canal to the Red Sea to the Strait of Hormuz open — so shared prosperity cannot be threatened by malign adversaries.

Why it matters

The Security Council address is Wright’s energy-abundance doctrine delivered as American diplomacy at the UN’s top table: critical minerals and energy framed as security issues, chaired by the Energy Secretary rather than a diplomat, with the Iran confrontation and the clean-cooking toll carried in the same speech.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: Secretary Wright’s Security Council framing on March 5, 2026 — energy and critical minerals presented as fundamental to prosperity and peace, and the over-two-million annual indoor-air-pollution deaths estimate as he cited it. Flagged for the scoreboard editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Addresses United Nations Security Council - March 5, 2026” (official upload, embedded above; address as delivered by Secretary Wright).