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Press Releases
- Healey-Driscoll Administration Launches Climate Science Advisory Panel (January 11, 2024)
- DOE Grants $2.5 Million for Pioneering Study on Energy Justice in US Offshore Wind Development, Led by the University of Rhode Island, Boston University, and the University of Delaware (December 11, 2023)
- Building a Green Future: Examining the Job Creation Potential of Electricity, Heating, and Storage in Low-Carbon Buildings (July 25, 2023)
- $1.1 Million Awarded to Joint Study on Impacts of Data Centers in Norway’s Clean Energy Transition (July 13, 2023)
- Boston University and National Renewable Energy Laboratory Strengthen Partnership, Announce New Joint Appointments and Student Mentorships (July 6, 2023)
- Public Back Bolder Policies to Reduce Fuel and Transport Poverty (February 7, 2023), co-authored by IGS Director Benjamin Sovacool
- BU’s Institute for Global Sustainability Launches Visualizing Energy Project (January 17, 2023)
- Warm Days Are Contributing to Gun Violence Surge across the US (December 16, 2022), co-authored by IGS core faculty Gregory Wellenius
- Risk of Population Disruption as a Result of Decarbonisation” (December 15, 2022), co-authored by IGS Director Benjamin Sovacool
- COP Must Reverse Rising Pessimism Over Building Sector Decarbonization, New Study Argues (November 17, 2022), co-authored by IGS Director Benjamin Sovacool
- Potential for Net-Zero Industry Is Emerging in United Kingdom (November 10, 2022)
- Boston University Partners with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to Recruit Top Research Talent (September 29, 2022)
- BU Joins BOEM, NOAA to Support Ecosystem-based Development on the US Outer Continental Shelf (September 12, 2022)
- Boston University’s Benjamin K. Sovacool Elected to The National Academies’ Board on Environmental Change and Society (August 31, 2022)
- COM Researchers Launch New Study of Climate Mis- and Disinformation (May 24, 2022)
- Boston University Appoints New Leadership of Institute for Sustainable Energy (January 19, 2022)
- New Report Calls for an Integrated National Strategy to Bolster U.S. Clean Manufacturing and Avert Climate Change (June 21, 2021)
- UK Government & Boston University Release Joint Report on Cities’ Net-Zero Ambitions (May 20, 2021)
- Alliance Media Partners with Earthday.org to Feature “Restore Our Earth” Out of Home Display Campaign in Africa (April 21, 2021)
- ISE Senior Fellow Lawrence Jones Joins World Resources Institute’s Global Board of Directors (December 9, 2020)
- Nature’s Essential Workers Featured on Out of Home Displays for Climate Week (September 21, 2020)
- Boston University Launches Program to Improve Sustainable Investment Metrics and Processes (September 16, 2020)
- POWER AFTER CARBON: Building a Clean, Resilient Grid (May 19, 2020) — Harvard University Press
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