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Sharing visions of energy security for an increasingly polarised world
30/4/2025
10 min read
Feature
While not quite a council of war, comments at the Summit of the Future of Energy Security, organised by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and hosted by the UK government in London on 24–25 April 2025, set a combative tone in an age of uncertainty and conflict. New Energy World Senior Editor Will Dalrymple was there.
Witness the opening remarks of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer: ‘In a sense we’re here for one simple reason: the world has changed. From defence to national security, which has been much discussed, to the economy and trade, old assumptions have fallen away. We are living in an era of global instability, which is felt by working people as an age of local insecurity.’
‘Energy security is right at the heart of this. Every family and business across the UK has paid the price for Russia weaponising energy.’
From the comments of Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko to Finnish Climate Minister Sari Multala and IEA Secretary General Fatih Birol, there was a common acknowledgment of the risks posed by the prime aggressor of Europe in the last decade. The roster of 60 countries represented did not feature a speaker from Russia.