Outside Australia and New Zealand, oil accounts for around 80 percent of the region's total energy supply, and almost all of it is imported. In April, Pacific Islands Forum leaders invoked the Biketawa Declaration, the region's highest-level crisis response mechanism. This is why energy security cannot be treated as a secondary concern. The Pacific did not create the conditions behind this year's fuel shock. An accelerated energy transition is the only version of energy security that does not depend on someone else's war and someone else's timeline.