IGS press releases
IGS and Schneider Electric SRI study reveals over 2 million new jobs can be created during the transition to net-zero buildings.
Funding supports research collaboration between NTNU Social Research and Boston University.
The first IGS and NREL joint appointments include IGS Director Benjamin Sovacool and Executive Director Rebecca Pearl-Martinez.
Participating faculty and staff at BU include IGS leadership, plus core and affiliated faculty.
New project features data-storytelling on the links between sustainable energy, health, and well-being.
World-leading approach to industrial decarbonization advances policy and technology solutions.
BU is one of only 18 university partners nationwide to offer joint appointments with NREL.
Dr. Sovacool will help shape The National Academies’ research agenda on the human impacts of sustainability transitions.
Leading scholar on global energy and climate policy named new director of institute BOSTON, MA, January 19, 2022—Boston University (BU) is further strengthening its university-wide commitment to sustainability and climate change research with the appointment of internationally recognized social scientist Dr. Benjamin Sovacool as the new director of its Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE). Dr. […]
WASHINGTON D.C., June 21, 2021—Manufacturing may soon become the sector with the largest greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, yet national plans to achieve net-zero emissions have so far not focused on retooling manufacturing industries. A new report released today by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the Boston University Institute for Sustainable […]