War with Iran Is a Nightmare for Oil and Gas. How Will it Impact Clean Energy?
Jason Bordoff, a climate and energy expert, joins Zero to talk about how the conflict in the Middle East could affect the transition to green energy.
Demonstrators during a protest in support of regime change in Iran in Times Square in New York, US, on Monday, March 2, 2026.
Photographer: Michael Nagle/BloombergMany consider a widespread war in the Middle East the worst-case scenario for the global oil and gas market. That war is here, and it could have wide-ranging, long-lasting impacts on energy and climate policy.
This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi speaks with Jason Bordoff, director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and former energy and climate advisor to President Barack Obama to try to understand what those impacts could look like. Will countries double down on fossil fuels or will they speed up the clean-energy transition?