Sixteen independent energy security experts, including Albéric Mongrenier, EIES’ Executive Director, and General Tom Middendorp (Ret.), member of the ESLC-E, former Netherlands Chief of Defence, Chairman of the International Military Council on Climate and Security, have written to Dr Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, urging a stronger response to the ongoing global oil and gas crisis.

The group of former military chiefs, academics, and geopolitics experts says that accelerating the transition to clean, safe, and affordable energy systems is a security imperative. It calls on the IEA to provide guidance to governments on how to reduce exposure to volatile oil and gas markets, as it did to the EU immediately after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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