From Climate Change to Energy Securitisation: Advancing the green transition amid shifting narratives of power and crisis

Geopolitical, geoeconomic, and other evolving global dynamics are today transforming narratives around climate mitigation and the low-carbon transition. Where does this leave international efforts to achieve net zero and, crucially, our pathways for reaching that goal? In a time of intensifying geopolitical turmoil, economic crisis, and regional conflict, governments the world over are emphasising security over other pressing concerns like climate change, which has fallen down the priority list of many. Today, decarbonisation initiatives are increasingly recast as energy security imperatives, with new narratives centring on national resilience and strategic autonomy. How is this new framing substantively reshaping the low-carbon transition in the face of waning official interest in the cli