POSTPONED: Energy and Climate Change Geopolitics in the Digital Age

POSTPONED

The Cadario Lecture on Public Policy on “Energy and Climate Change Geopolitics in the Digital Age” featuring Amy Myers Jaffe on April 6, 2020 has been postponed owing to travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We intend to reconvene in the next academic year and continue the important conversation about global energy policy and climate change.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

The Cadario Visiting Lecture in Public Policy & Governance

A new wave of digital technological innovations, coupled with intensifying global concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, is changing the landscape for oil and gas, with significant geopolitical implications. Many resource dependent economies are evaluating new strategies for economic growth that take into account the future global energy transition, even as short term demand for fossil fuels remains high and risk of supply disruptions has accelerated since 2018. Canada plays a unique role in North American energy security and trade with its ready accessible production of traditional and clean energy. But uncertainty about the pace of the energy transition as well as financial risks associated with large-scale infrastructure development has hindered efficient deployment of energy developments. Amy Myers Jaffe will discuss the geopolitical variables that are likely to influence the global and North American energy landscape in the coming years and what they mean for Canada.

About our Speaker:

Amy Myers Jaffe is a leading expert on global energy policy, energy and sustainability, and geopolitical risk. She is the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining the Council on Foreign Relations, Jaffe was the executive director for Energy and Sustainability at the University of California Davis. She also served 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.

Prior to joining UC Davis, Jaffe served as founding director of the Baker Institute Energy Forum (now called the Center for Energy Studies) and Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. A frequent media commentator and former journalist, Jaffe's research focuses on oil and natural gas geopolitics, corporate investment strategies in the energy sector, sustainability and energy, and energy economics. She was formerly senior editor and Middle East analyst for Petroleum Intelligence Weekly. Jaffe is widely published, including as co-author of Oil, Dollars, Debt and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold with Mahmoud El-Gamal and co-editor of Natural Gas and Geopolitics From 1970 to 2040.