Inside Climate News: “The Global Energy Supply in a Decade ‘Is Not a World We’re Going to Recognize’”
This story highlights RFF’s recent Global Energy Outlook event and webinar.
Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan natural resources and environment think tank, sponsored the panel in conjunction with its new report, “Global Energy Outlook 2026: How the World Lost the Goal of 1.5°C.”
“We may not have a functional Strait of Hormuz coming out of this situation,” said Sarah Ladislaw, one of the panelists and founding director of the New Energy Industrial Strategy Center in Washington, DC. “And that’s not a small issue.”
... Countries with diversified energy sources, especially renewables, are more resilient “in the face of the shock,” said Billy Pizer, president and CEO of Resources for the Future. “We’re going to see increased attention to these things through a security lens, and more policies directed in that way.”
Global temperatures have already blown past the 1.5 degree Celsius benchmark set 10 years ago as part of the Paris Agreement on climate change. “It has become clear that achieving this goal is no longer plausible,” the RFF report says.
