A connected threat needs a connected framework

Global Energy Agenda

May 18, 2026

Omran Al-Kuwari

Omran Al‑Kuwari is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, CEO of Forta Advisors, and an honorary senior research fellow at University College London’s Bartlett School of Environment, Energy, and Resources. This essay is part of the 2026 Global Energy Agenda.

Nothing that has happened in the extremely tense weeks since the April 8 ceasefire in the US–Iran conflict has persuaded me that this is a global crisis the world can confidently put behind it.

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