Environmental change is a defining strategic challenge for current and future leaders. Its impacts run through policy areas from urban planning and infrastructure investments to financial market stability and border security. The global quest to mitigate it will affect trade policy, geopolitics, business strategy, resource valuation and other aspects of political, market, and society context.
The Deitz Family Initiative on Environment & Global Affairs focuses on equipping Jackson and other professional school students with the skills that they need to accurately recognize and strategically respond to the influence of environmental change on broader political, economic, and development goals.
Latest news from the Deitz Initiative
The aerosol dilemma: How fighting pollution affects climate change
In a Q&A, Jessica Seddon, Jackson School senior lecturer and director of the Deitz Family Initiative on Environment and Global Affairs, explains the need to integrate climate and air-quality policies.
Yale students present STEM research on Capitol Hill
More than two dozen students presented research with policy priorities spanning quantum, climate, biomedical research, space, infrastructure, energy, and land management.
Yale Jackson students reflect on their experiences at COP30
Three Jackson School students traveled to COP30 in Belém, Brazil, where they supported national delegations on climate justice, loss and damage, and conservation finance — and returned with renewed conviction that climate cooperation is still possible.
Upcoming events
Blue Center Co-Lecture: Arctic Security
The Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment and the Deitz Family Initiative on Environment and Global Affairs will host a lecture on “Cybersecurity and Digital Policy” as part of the Blue Center’s...
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- Horchow Hall, GM Room (103)