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Supporting countries in the unfolding energy crisis
… our new crisis response tracker; coordinating with the IMF & World Bank; podcast episodes on sheltering consumers and impacts in Southeast Asia; the prospects for key energy technologies; and more ...
Newsletter of the International Energy Agency
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Welcome back to the Energy Mix. In today's edition: Meeting with the leaders of Australia and Japan on the energy impacts of the Middle East conflict; new online tracker showing government responses to the energy crisis; special podcast episodes on sheltering households and businesses, and on the impacts in Southeast Asia; our new Energy Technology Perspectives 2026…
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Oil exports through Strait of Hormuz rise
…and businesses from the impacts, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. Our latest forecast sees global oil demand falling by almost 5 million barrels per day in the second quarter of 2026 compared with the same period a year earlier.
There have also been three crucial adjustments on the supply side, as our new commentary https://www.iea.org/commentaries/how-global-oil-supplies-have-readjusted-to-help-fill-the-huge-gap-left-by-the-strait-of-hormuz-shock highlights. First, a surge in oil prices incentivised market participants to draw down inventories at record rates, while the IEA’s…
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The Strait of Hormuz and global LNG supply
…in some countries.
In Asia, the benchmark LNG price more than doubled in the first two trading days following the start of the conflict, while the European natural gas benchmark shot up by around 70%. Prices have eased somewhat from those initial highs, but they remain volatile and well above their pre-conflict levels.
Before the outbreak of the conflict, global natural gas markets had been gradually rebalancing https://www.iea.org/reports/gas-market-report-q1-2026 following the major shock from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. A wave of new LNG capacity https://www.i...
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A major summit on clean cooking in Africa
…we published an update https://www.iea.org/news/accelerating-clean-cooking-investment-can-propel-africa-towards-full-access-by-2040 showing that more than $470 million of the commitments from the Paris summit had already been disbursed – and set out a new roadmap https://www.iea.org/reports/universal-access-to-clean-cooking-in-africa laying out a cost-effective pathway to reaching universal access to clean cooking across sub-Saharan Africa by 2040.
Stay tuned for more details on the upcoming summit https://www.iea.org/news/kenya-norway-us-and-iea-to-hold-2nd-major-summit-on…
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IEA responding to major global energy security threat
…pressures on consumers; assessing the impacts on oil markets; a new podcast episode unpacking the IEA collective action; Romania’s request to join the IEA; and more ...
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Welcome back to the Energy Mix. In today's edition: The latest on the energy crisis stemming from the Middle East conflict and our emergency oil stock release; 10 options to ease price pressures on consumers; assessing the impacts on oil markets; a new podcast episode putting the stock release in context; Romania’s formal request to join the IEA; and…
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Tackling rare earth supply risks
New data shows supply chains for rare earths are particularly geographically concentrated
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Welcome back to Energy Snapshot, the International Energy Agency’s monthly newsletter focused on charts and data. In today’s edition, we look at supply chains for rare earth elements.
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In recent years, the IEA has repeatedly emphasised the energy security risks linked to the supply of critical minerals, which are vital for modern energy systems, transport and advanced manufacturing.
But…
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7 certainties about energy for this age of uncertainty
…security risks in Davos; the latest oil market trends; the outlook for gas markets; IEA to host Mission Innovation Secretariat; investment in next-generation geothermal; new podcast episodes; and more ...
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Welcome back to the Energy Mix and best wishes for 2026. In today's edition: The 7 key energy trends that decision-markers need to keep in focus; highlighting the multiplication of energy security risks to leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos; IEA to host the Mission Innovation Secretariat at our HQ; the world’s…
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How the global landscape for energy investment is changing
…solar PV, which have seen costs decline by nearly 80% since 2015 thanks to innovation and growing markets. If the costs of technologies across the energy system had remained where they stood a decade ago, an additional $2.5 trillion in spending would have been required in 2026 to support the same energy infrastructure build-out.
In a dynamic global environment, the precise contours of the new energy investment landscape will become clearer over time. In the months and years ahead, the IEA will continue to track the implications of disruptions, innovation and other key factors on the investment cho...
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The energy implications of events in the Middle East
…meanwhile, have gradually rebalanced https://www.iea.org/reports/gas-market-report-q1-2026 in recent years following the major shock that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. A wave of new LNG capacity https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/global-lng-capacity-tracker between now and the end of this decade is expected to transform market dynamics. But markets remained tight in the first two months of 2026, and depleted storage coming out of the heating season in the Northern Hemisphere is set to increase the call on LNG in the months ahead…
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What are the biggest sources of energy today?
3 charts that show how the world met rising global energy demand in 2025
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Welcome back to Energy Snapshot, the International Energy Agency’s monthly newsletter focused on charts and data. In this edition, we look at the energy sources the world depends on today – and what changes are taking place.
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The world is thirsty for energy. Even against a complex economic and geopolitical backdrop, global energy consumption continued to rise in 2025…