Now Hiring: Clean Energy & Environment Legacy Transition (CELT) Student Fellows
Apply for the CELT Office of Energy Transformation fellowship.
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.
Now Hiring: Clean Energy & Environment Legacy Transition (CELT) Municipal Fellows
Recruiting students for statewide opportunity to support sustainability projects in Massachusetts. Passionate about clean energy? The Clean Energy & Environment Legacy Transition (CELT) Initiative is hiring students for its second cohort of Municipal Fellows to work with local governments across Massachusetts on sustainability projects, especially in environmental justice communities. Boston University, UMass Lowell, and the […]
Apply for Fall 2025 Campus Climate Lab Funding
Help advance sustainability and climate solutions using the BU campuses as your living lab!
TIME Names IGS Research Partner Schneider Electric the World’s Most Sustainable Company
IGS research partner Schneider Electric has once again topped TIME’s list of the world’s most sustainable companies, for the second year in a row. The company is recognized for not only surpassing its own sustainability goals, but also for helping other leading companies achieve theirs. IGS and Schneider Electric are working together to examine the […]
Welcome ENERGIZE Program Trainees
The new BU ENERGIZE Program, hosted by IGS, is off to a strong start!
California’s Solar Market Faces Seven Forms of Corruption—Including “Sex for Solar”
Groundbreaking IGS study points to recommended reforms in solar energy. By Laura Hurley Solar power is growing by leaps and bounds in the United States, propelled by climate mitigation policies and carbon-free energy goals — and California is leading the way as the nation’s top producer of solar electricity. A new study in Energy Strategy […]
What Is the Relationship Between Energy Use and Economic Output?
Investment Risk for Energy Infrastructure Construction Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowest for Solar
In a new state-of-the-art study, published in the journal Energy Research & Social Science, researchers at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) found that runaway construction costs and delayed timelines stymie many energy projects. In fact, the average project costs 40% more than expected for construction and takes almost two years longer than planned, as the study showed.