Book Club: The New Map: Energy, Climate and The Clash of Nations By David Yergin

Abstract

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future. The “shale revolution” in oil and gas has transformed the American economy, ending the “era of shortage” but introducing a turbulent new era. Almost overnight, the United States has become the world's number one energy powerhouse. Yet concern about energy's role in climate change is challenging the global economy and way of life, accelerating a second energy revolution in the search for a low-carbon future. All of this has been made starker and more urgent by the coronavirus pandemic, its economic impact, and geopolitical shifts arising from China, Russia and the Middle East.

About the Author

Daniel Yergin is Vice Chairman of IHS and Founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates. He serves on the U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board and chaired the US Department of Energy’s Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. He is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, on the Board of the New America Foundation, and on the Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative. Dr. Yergin holds a B.A. from Yale University and a PhD from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.