Frontiers in Climate· 2026Q1
From the 2026 Hormuz disruption to renewable resilience: energy security and decarbonization governance in import-dependent economies
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A new four-component framework, tested against the 2026 Hormuz Strait disruption and Israel's energy system, reveals that import-dependent economies underprice risks from fossil-fuel chokepoints and centralized domestic assets, necessitating governance of distributed renewables as critical national infrastructure.
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- Conventional energy security frameworks underprice risks in import-dependent economies, particularly those linked to fossil-fuel chokepoints and centralized domestic assets.
- A novel four-component analytical framework assesses chokepoint exposure, quantifies domestic fossil-fuel externalities, maps fuel-water infrastructure, and identifies governance instruments.
- Applying the framework to Israel, using the 2026 Hormuz disruption as a stress test, revealed significant risks including high air pollution burdens and desalination vulnerability.
- The study advocates for designating distributed renewable generation, energy storage, and transport electrification as critical national infrastructure, supported by legislation and national security assessments.
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Abstract
Import-dependent economies face a systemic governance challenge: a small number of fossil-fuel chokepoints and centralized fossil assets concentrate macroeconomic, health, and water-security risks that conventional energy-security framing systematically underprices. Using the 2026 disruption of the Strait of Hormuz as an illustrative stress test and Israel as a semi-arid, security-sensitive case, this Perspective develops a four-component analytical framework—chokepoint-exposure assessment (distinguishing physical supply, global price, infrastructure-concentration, and cross-sector cascade exposure), quantification of domestic fossil-fuel externalities, mapping of fossil-fuel–water infrastructure couplings, and security-oriented governance instruments—and applies it to governmental, OECD, and epidemiological evidence. The analysis shows that Israel’s fossil-centric paradigm couples exposure to distant chokepoints with the concentration of domestic gas supply in three offshore platforms, a total ambient air-pollution burden of 4,641–6,166 premature deaths annually (over USD 7.2 billion in economic costs), to which fossil-fuel combustion is a major though not exclusive contributor, and a desalination system exposed to low-probability, high-impact maritime oil-spill scenarios. We argue that distributed renewable generation, energy storage, and transport electrification warrant designation and governance as critical national infrastructure, supported by binding climate mitigation legislation, targeted fiscal instruments, and resilience metrics embedded in national security assessments. The framework is operationalized in a reproducible component–indicator–data table, and we conclude by specifying screening criteria under which it may inform decarbonization policy in other small, import-dependent economies.
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