This year’s World Energy Issues Monitor reflects enormous uncertainty about the best way to manage climatechange as we recover from the COVID-19 crisis, in an environment of rising energy costs. Undertaken in theweeks immediately following the COP 26 Conference in Glasgow in late 2021, our survey also highlights sharedconcerns about the rise of national interests in the face of climate change – a red signal for humanity.

Energy matters are centre stage in a world of more digitally connected, politically contested, interdependent,and diverse energy societies. Leadership agendas are focussed on the complex coordination challenges ofmanaging faster-paced global energy transitions, without triggering new threats to regional and global peace.

In parts of the world many of the issues addressed in this publication have manifested themselves in the form ofpublic uproar, notably around energy prices, costs and a!ordability as well as climate management.