Event & Presentation Archive

View recordings and slide decks from past IGS events across our core research areas of planetary and environmental health, energy systems of the future, and climate governance and sustainability transitions.

Professor Gallagher speaks about financing China’s role in global energy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies

ISE affiliated faculty member, Professor Kevin Gallagher, was featured in a panel discussion that focused on the role of Chinese state financing in global energy development. Professor Gallagher also presented findings from a recent study he authored through BU’s Global Economic Governance Initiative.  The study, 'Fueling Growth and Financing Risk,'... More

Climate Change Policy After Paris

In 2015 world leaders negotiated a major agreement, known as the Paris Agreement, to reduce climate change and committed to take action to keep global temperature rise below 2C by the end of the century. Watch the video below to find out what Ken Berlin, President & CEO of The Climate Reality Project, has... More

Urban Mobility in Clean, Green Cities

Between 2010 and 2050, the number of people living in world’s urban areas is expected to increase by 80 percent. This growth will intensify the great challenges for urban mobility. Cities increasingly face problems caused by transport and traffic, and how to keep cities clean and green become critical. Watch videos below to find out what... More

The Future of Energy Efficiency

Harvey Michaels, MIT, and Robert Kaufmann, Boston University, explored the future of efficient energy, including intelligent buildings at the edge of a decarbonized energy grid on the first day of ISE Earth Week events. Click HERE to view Prof. Michaels's slides. https://youtu.be/rAPH0G8KJ38 https://youtu.be/4zzRE6avwdU https://youtu.be/STa2Zipez3c

Ken Berlin Talks About Climate Change Policy

Ken Berlin, President & CEO of The Climate Reality Project, talks about climate change policy after the Paris Agreement on the last day of ISE Earth Week events, April 21, 2016.

Intelligent buildings can be energy efficiency’s future, scholars say

April 19, 2016 10:13 pm · Posted by Sophia Eppolito Scholars presented the concept of intelligent buildings as a key factor in the future of energy efficiency during a seminar Tuesday afternoon hosted by the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy. Massachusetts Institute of Technology research scientist Harvey Michaels gave a presentation... More

Presentations and Videos on Urban Mobility

Henry Kelly, University of Michigan, and Christos Cassandras, Boston University, talked about urban mobility issues in clean and green cities during ISE Earth Week events on April 20, 2016. Download Dr. Kelly’s slides. Download Prof. Cassandras’s slides.

Presentations and Videos on The Future of Energy Efficiency

Harvey Michaels, MIT, gave a speech about the future of efficient energy, including intelligent buildings at the edge of a decarbonized energy grid on the first day of ISE Earth Week events, April 19, 2016. Download Prof. Michaels’s slides.

Peter Fox-Penner gave presentation at Climateworks

On April 4, 2016 ISE Director Peter Fox-Penner gave an invited presentation at Climateworks on Grid Equity in the Clean Power Transition. The main message of the presentation is that the distribution and transmission grids are key to the clean power transition and also key to realizing the potential of distributed... More