UK hosts ministers for crucial energy summit

Global leaders, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and ministers from France, Germany, India, Japan and the United States, will join energy company executives in the United Kingdom this week for a major summit on securing stable energy supplies amid global market uncertainty.

More than 60 countries will be represented at London's Lancaster House on Thursday and Friday for the energy security summit, co-hosted by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the International Energy Agency amid warnings that the world has yet to fully grasp the lessons from the crisis triggered by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, reported the Financial Times.

Discussing the crisis stemming from Europe's loss of Russian pipeline gas and the scramble for alternative energy sources, International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol warned the "lessons from Ukraine have not yet been fully understood".