On-Demand Webinar: Integrating Advanced Manufacturing and Climate Change Policies
IGS Events | Energy of the Future series
The Global Warming Potential Misrepresents the Physics of Global Warming Thereby Misleading Policy Makers
IGS Research | November 2020
Popular Climate Change Metric Misleads Policymakers
A widely used metric in policymaking circles uses over-simplified forecasting methods that can lead to costly mistakes. The Global Warming Potential (GWP) metric has significant shortcomings—it is poorly grounded in physics, arbitrarily designed, difficult to understand, overly naïve as a policy driver, and in some cases potentially misleading. The ISE’s new report, The Global Warming […]
Born Global Foundation Competition for Innovation in Sustainability
$9,000 in total prize money for BU student teams to create a newly formulated solution to a real-world sustainability problem. Boston University’s College of Engineering is pleased to announce a novel design competition for innovations to impact the global challenge of sustainability, The Born Global Foundation Competition for Innovation in Sustainability. The competition is jointly […]
A Survey of North American City Climate Leaders: The Prospects for Climate Action in the COVID-19 Era
IGS Research | October 2020
A Survey of North American City Climate Leaders: The Prospects for Climate Action in the COVID-19 Era
Report series on “COVID & Climate: What’s Next for Cities?” provides community leaders with guidance on navigating their climate action priorities. In the final report of our three-part series, the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy presents the results of a survey of 25 U.S. and Canadian city climate leaders, conducted in July and August […]
On-Demand Webinar: Clean Energy Markets in the Wake of COVID-19
IGS Events | Energy of the Future series
Vote to Save the World
IGS Blog | In 2009 climate activist Bill McKibben’s group 350.org had a day of action with rallies all around the world – sending the message that we need to keep the level of carbon dioxide lower than 350 ppm.
Sustainable Water Planning: Risk Mitigation Based on Critical Infrastructure Analysis
The growth in uncertainties from multiple sources calls for revamped water planning approaches and processes designed to better prepare for less predictable outcomes, including the incorporation of scenario planning that accounts for critical infrastructure interdependencies. In our research brief, Scenarios, Sustainability, and Critical Infrastructure Risk Mitigation in Water Planning, the Boston University Institute for Sustainable […]
On-Demand Webinar: The Value of Diversifying Uncertain Renewable Generation through the Transmission System
IGS Events | Transmission grid’s value for lowering the cost of integrating renewable generation through geographic diversification