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U.S. State Actions to Help Fossil Fuel Communities Navigate the Energy Transition
The world has committed to transitioning away from fossil fuels to avoid the most severe threats of climate change.[1] Communities across the United States rely on fossil fuel...
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Inside the 2024 World Energy Outlook
Rising electricity demand. Heightened geopolitical tension. Fragility in energy markets. These are some of the big stories shaping the energy transition outlined in the International Energy Agency’s newest...
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Careers in Sustainable Startups
Gender disparities in entrepreneurship are stark. Only one in every three businesses is owned by a woman.
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Energy’s Digital FutureHarnessing Innovation for American Resilience and National Security By Amy Myers Jaffe, Research Professor and Managing Director at the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Co-Chair of the Women in Energy Steering Committee at the Center on Global Energy Policy. Disruptive digital technologies are poised to reshape world energy markets. A new wave of industrial innovation, driven by the convergence of automation, artificial intelligence, and big data analytics, is remaking energy and transportation systems in ways that could someday end the age of oil. What are the consequences—not only for the environment and for daily life but also for geopolitics and the international order? Amy Myers Jaffe provides an expert look at the promises and challenges of the future of energy, highlighting what the United States needs to do to maintain its global influence in a post-oil era. She surveys new advances coming to market in on-demand travel services, automation, logistics, energy storage, artificial intelligence, and 3-D printing and explores how this rapid pace of innovation is altering international security dynamics in fundamental ways. As the United States vacillates politically about its energy trajectory, China is proactively striving to become the global frontrunner in a full-scale global energy transformation. In order to maintain its leadership role, Jaffe argues, the United States must embrace the digital revolution and foster American achievement. Bringing together analyses of technological innovation, energy policy, and geopolitics, Energy’s Digital Future gives indispensable insight into the path the United States will need to pursue to ensure its lasting economic competitiveness and national security in a new energy age. About the AuthorAmy Myers Jaffe is research professor and managing director at the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She also serves as the co-chair of the Women in Energy Steering Committee at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. She is coauthor of Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold (2009) and coeditor of Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040 (2006), among other books. |
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China’s Slowing Oil Demand Growth Is Likely to Persist and Could Impact Markets
China’s demand for oil, long an important driver of global oil demand growth, slowed dramatically during January–September 2024. Between 2000 and 2023, China accounted for 50 percent of...
Falling Interest Rates Alone May Not Imminently Boost Investments in Renewable Energy
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) commenced its monetary easing cycle on Wednesday with an aggressive 50 basis points policy rate cut. The United States is not alone in...
The Case for Strengthening Sanctions Regimes to Fight Corruption
As new industries are emerging to support the energy transition, anti-corruption sanctions are an important part of the international effort to ensure that the global economy operates on...
