Climate Governance
Sustainability requires new modes of governance, policy mechanisms, and business models along with new community partners. Policymakers, corporate leaders, and communities face the challenge of transitioning energy systems while addressing socio-economic considerations and energy justice.
The Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) is tackling the politics and business of sustainability transitions at all levels, including corporate social responsibility and performance, urban transitions, new modes of governance, net-zero supply chains, and more.
The Impact Measurement & Allocation Program (IMAP) is led by IGS and the Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy. IMAP is working to streamline existing sustainable investment metrics and criteria to evaluate a company’s environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) in a reliable and universal way.
The following research is authored by IGS executive leadership, faculty associate directors, and core faculty.
Inclusive Innovation in Just Transitions: The Case of Smart Local Energy Systems in the UK
IGS Research | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, June 2023 Read more
Actors, Legitimacy, and Governance Challenges Facing Negative Emissions and Solar Geoengineering Technologies
IGS Research | Environmental Politics, May 16, 2023 Read more
Six Bold Steps Towards Net-Zero Industry
IGS Research | Energy Research & Social Science, May 2023 Read more
“Bigger Than Government”: Exploring the Social Construction and Contestation of Net-zero Industrial Megaprojects in England
IGS Research | Technological Forecasting and Social Change, March 2023 Read more
Consumer Response to Transformative Transportation Innovations: Advancing the Reflexive Participant Approach to Survey Research
IGS Research | Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, March 2023 Read more
Industrializing Theories: A Thematic Analysis of Conceptual Frameworks and Typologies for Industrial Sociotechnical Change in a Low-Carbon Future
IGS Research | Energy Research & Social Science, March 2023 Read more
Pluralizing Energy Justice: Incorporating Feminist, Anti-racist, Indigenous, and Postcolonial Perspectives
IGS Research | Energy Research & Social Science, March 2023 Read more
Policy Prescriptions to Address Energy and Transport Poverty in the United Kingdom
IGS Research | Nature Energy, February 6, 2023 Read more
Decarbonizing the Chemical Industry: A Systematic Review of Sociotechnical Systems, Technological Innovations, and Policy Options
IGS Research | Energy Research & Social Science, February 2023 Read more
Facilitating System-Level Behavioural Climate Action Using Computational Social Science
IGS Research | Nature Human Behavior, January 27, 2023 Read more