BloombergNEF: The Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0

Michael Liebreich · 27 May 2026 · liebreich.com ↗

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The Gulf conflict and closure of the Strait of Hormuz will accelerate the global shift away from fossil fuels

Their wordsWhat the current conflict in the Gulf - in particular the closure of the Strait of Hormuz - is going to do is to provide a further push to global attempts to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
Our reading
The peak in global fossil fuel use and emissions will occur before 2030

Their wordsWe are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 - a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030.