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  The Immigrant Birthweight Paradox in an Urban Cohort: Role of Immigrant Enclaves and Ambient Air Pollution

  January 4, 2022

  Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
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  How the Next Mayor Can Accelerate Boston’s Equitable Clean Energy Transition

  September 1, 2021

  Published by the Institute for Sustainable Energy (now the Institute for Global Sustainability)
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  Becoming Killable: White-Tailed Deer Management and the Production of Overabundance in the Blue Hills

  May 4, 2021

  Urban Geography
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  Accelerating Cities’ Net Zero Action

  May 1, 2021

  The impact of partnerships and emerging opportunities in financing for city climate action City-university partnerships can be a powerful accelerant to the decarbonization transition, supporting the crucial effort to achieve dramatic emissions mitigation in the coming decade to maintain a sustainable future. The Institute for Sustainable Energy (now the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability) […]
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  EPA Methane Emission Controls, Obama vs Trump vs Biden: What Needs to Be Fixed and What Should Be Left Alone

  May 1, 2021

  The Trump and Obama emission regulations Biden should fix The failure to adequately regulate major sources of methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry is a legacy of both the Obama and Trump administrations. In an analysis of methane emission regulation from both presidencies, Institute for Sustainable Energy Energy (now the Boston University […]
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  Quantifying Scope 3 Emissions Associated with Employee Travel at Boston University

  January 1, 2021

  Travel offsets and reduction programs key to Boston University reaching its net-zero goal As part of its Climate Action Plan, Boston University has committed to the goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2040. Employee air travel can account for a large proportion of a university’s Scope 3 emissions, which include emissions […]
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  The Global Warming Potential Misrepresents the Physics of Global Warming Thereby Misleading Policy Makers

  November 1, 2020

  A popular measure of climate change could be misleading A widely used metric in climate policymaking uses over-simplified forecasting methods that can lead to costly mistakes. Institute for Sustainable Energy (now the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability) Senior Fellow Robert Kleinberg argues that the global community—especially policymakers—should utilize more scientifically rigorous modeling tools to […]
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  Scenarios, Sustainability, and Critical Infrastructure Risk Mitigation in Water Planning

  October 1, 2020

  Planning for water in the context of critical infrastructure With climate change impacting water systems around the globe, the state of water supply planning is facing unprecedented challenges and calls for revamped approaches designed to better prepare for less predictable outcomes. The Institute for Sustainable Energy (now the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability) has […]
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  Water Planning in an Age of Change

  October 1, 2020

  Enhancing water infrastructure planning to reduce risk Over the past two decades, critical infrastructure planning has emerged as a framework that can help decision-makers understand infrastructure interdependencies and enable individual infrastructure plans to better respond to disruptive events. By examining U.S. water planning methods and how interdependencies of critical infrastructure are driving the need for […]
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  A Survey of North American City Climate Leaders: The Prospects for Climate Action in the COVID-19 Era

  October 1, 2020

  The future of climate action in U.S. cities after COVID-19 The need to rebuild local economies following the COVID-19 pandemic has brought new, urgent challenges for city leaders who are already striving to reverse the impacts of climate change—especially upon vulnerable populations, who disproportionately suffer its effects. To better understand the potential path forward, the […]