Broadway Bites: Benjamin Sovacool

Join us for our monthly community lunch at 420 Broadway in Cambridge. This month: Benjamin Sovacool, Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability.

Broadway Bites is a monthly lunch event at Swissnex, bringing guest speakers from Swissnex’s global network to give a short talk on their work. In this edition, Benjamin Sovacool, Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability, will discuss equity and justice implications of the transition to low-carbon technologies.

Program

  • 12:15pm – Doors open
  • 12:30pm – - Lunch and conversation
  • 2:00pm – End

Event start time

Keynote

Benjamin Sovacool
Director, Institute for Global Sustainability, Boston University

 

Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University in the United States, where he is the Founding Director of the Institute for Global Sustainability, as well as Professor of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School in the United Kingdom. Professor Sovacool works as a researcher and consultant on issues pertaining to energy policy, energy justice, energy security, climate change mitigation, and climate change adaptation. More specifically, his research focuses on renewable energy and energy efficiency, the politics of large-scale energy infrastructure, the ethics and morality of energy decisions, designing public policy to improve energy security and access to electricity, and building adaptive capacity to the consequences of climate change. His research has been endorsed by U.S. President Bill Clinton, the Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland, and the late Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom, among others. He was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), published in 2022, and he serves on the Board on Environmental Change and Society for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States. With much coverage of his work in the international news media, he is one of the most highly cited global researchers on issues bearing on controversies in energy and climate policy.