Amy Myers Jaffe

Amy Myers Jaffe

Director, Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab, NYU

Amy Myers Jaffe serves as Director of the Energy, Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab at New York University’s School of Professional Studies and is a research professor who teaches graduate-level courses examining global climate finance, clean technology innovation and business, and energy and climate justice. A leading expert on global energy policy, sustainability, and geopolitical risk, Jaffe is author of several books, including her most recent book, “Energy’s Digital Future” published in 2021 by Columbia University Press. Ms. Jaffe is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University and a regular contributor to the popular podcast “The Energy Gang.” From 2014 to 2017, Ms. Jaffe served as senior advisor on sustainability to the Office of the Chief Investment Officer of the University of California, Regents, where she helped design the sustainable investing framework for the UC’s $140 billion pension and endowment funds.

Recordings

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2022: This Year in Climate

December 23, 2022
As 2022 comes to a close, Climate One takes a look back at the climate highs and lows and revisits conversations with some of the most insightful
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A Paris Progress Report

May 17, 2018
In June 2017, President Trump announced his plan to withdraw the country from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, claiming it disadvantaged the United
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Trumping the Climate: Coming in Hot

June 2, 2017
The Trump administration’s determination to revive coal mining and domestic oil drilling is causing concern that international efforts to combat
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Resource Revolution

June 9, 2014
Today’s two billion middle class consumers will more than double globally over the next two decades. But while cities in China, India and other
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Power Year in Review

December 2, 2013
“Fear of fracking is rampant,” said KQED science editor Craig Miller when asked about California’s energy headlines of 2013. But more electric