India, Nov. 11 -- The International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that global energy security is facing its broadest test in decades, as mounting risks stretch across fuels, technologies and supply chains. In its flagship World Energy Outlook 2025 (WEO-2025), released on November 11, the agency calls for urgent diversification and cooperation to navigate an increasingly turbulent energy landscape.

Countries are now contending with a web of short-term shocks and long-term vulnerabilities that extend well beyond oil and gas, the IEA said. "When we look at the history of the energy world in recent decades, there is no other time when energy security tensions have applied to so many fuels and technologies at once - a situation that calls fo...