2026-04-17
53 分钟Hello and welcome to the panel discussion of World Today.
I'm Ding Han in Beijing.
The disruption around the Strait of Hormuz has posed a great threat to global energy security.
The crisis is once again drawing our attention to renewable energy, something that is already operating at scale.
According to energy think tank Amber's research,
solar power growth in 2025 alone could displace gas-fired electricity equal to all liquefied natural gas
exported through the straightforward mood in the same year.
In this edition of the program, we will explore whether the Hormuz crisis
is accelerating global transition to renewable energy.
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So joining us now on the line are Professor Stephen Wright,
Director of the Leadership Knowledge Base at the Qatar Leadership Center,
Professor Larry Hetayan, Middle East and North Africa Director with Natural Resource Governance Institute,
as well as Dr. Christy Stambedolt, Associate Professor of Economics at Monash University.
So thank you very much for joining us, dear panelists.
Professor Wright, to start with you, the Strait of Hormuz crisis is by no means
the first energy supply disruption we see.
There have been the oil crisis of the 1970s, the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, etc.
Did any of those past crises come close to the magnitude of the current disruption?