What are the Connections Among Fuel Poverty, Time Poverty, and Gender Equity?
Weekly data story from Visualizing Energy, a project of IGS. (October 27, 2025)
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IGS Announces IPCC Faculty Appointment and 2025 Sustainability Research Awardees at Annual Event
By Laura Hurley The inspiration for this year’s Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) annual event theme, “From Local to Global,” is easy to find at Boston University (BU). Speaking to sustainability and climate researchers across the university at IGS's annual gathering, BU President Melissa Gilliam recognized BU for leading by example in challenging […]
IGS Director Benjamin Sovacool Nominated as Coordinating Lead Author on Upcoming IPCC Seventh Assessment Report
Sovacool will co-lead a team of authors to produce the report’s new chapter.
Uneven Growth of Global Research Funding for Carbon Removal
Research co-authored by IGS Director Benjamin Sovacool.
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Mayor Michelle Wu Announces Six Recipients of the 2025 Community Clean Air Grant
The City of Boston has awarded a $194,691 2025 Community Clean Air Grant to Boston University's Clean Air, Health, and School Sustainability (CHESS) project in partnership with Boston Public Schools.
BU Indoor Air Quality Research for Healthy Schools Featured Side-Event of UN General Assembly
Speaking at the United Nations Side Event on Healthy Indoor Air, Katherine Walsh of Boston Public Schools discusses the value of the district's unique research collaboration with Dr. Patricia Fabian, an associate professor of environmental health and an associate director at the BU Institute for Global Sustainability.
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