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
Yale Jackson's Jessica Seddon helps translate atmospheric science for policy
As chair of the editorial board for the World Meteorological Organization’s Air Quality and Climate Bulletin, Seddon works to connect highly specialized atmospheric research to urgent policy questions.
Jessica Seddon and Paul Edwin Curtis on the Arctic’s swiftly changing climate
In the first convening of the Science-Policy Interchange, experts Mary-Louise Timmermans and Ben Strong explored how rapid warming and sea-ice loss are transforming the Arctic Ocean, reshaping global climate systems, human activity, environmental risks, and geopolitics across the region.
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.
Jessica Seddon and Paul Edwin Curtis on the promise of marine carbon dioxide removal
Members of the Deitz Family Initiative on Environment & Global Affairs report on the February 10th, 2026 session of the Science Policy Interchange featuring Elizabeth Yankovsky of Yale and Janos Pasztor, a former Assistant Secretary-General to the UN.
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...
- -
- Horchow Hall, GM Room (103)