Amy Myers Jaffe

Managing Director, Climate Policy Lab, Tufts University

Amy Myers Jaffe is a leading expert on global energy policy, energy and sustainability, and geopolitical risk. She is a research professor and Managing Director of the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Prior to joining Tufts Fletcher School, Jaffe was the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change. Jaffe also has served as the executive director for Energy and Sustainability at the University of California Davis and as senior advisor to the Office of the Chief Investment Officer of the University California Regents. Jaffe is currently co-chair of the steering committee of the Women in Energy Initiative at the Center for Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. She has taught energy policy, business and sustainability courses at Rice University, UC Davis and Yale University.

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...