Democratic responses to climate change will be determined by how institutions such as deliberative bodies make sense of decarbonization. In a novel ethnography of the deliberations to achieve New York’s climate target, one of the world’s most ambitious, I show how norms of talk shape how people temporally coordinate action to…
Seminar Series – Spring 2026The Education Research Section (ERS), an interdisciplinary unit in The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, promotes the use of high-quality research in education decision-making. We conduct, support, and promote education research, and disseminate results to educators, policymakers,…
The need to pivot away from fossil-fuel use rapidly is a common concern. But every technological transition is enabled and inhibited by its social and physical environments. I’m interested in small changes that add up, especially the choices that power homes and rely on the behavior of millions of people. How quickly can those…
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The 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) focuses on strengthening access to justice for all women and girls. This priority theme presents a critical opportunity to examine how systemic discrimination and institutionalised impunity deny women not only their fundamental rights, but also meaningful access…
United Nations Headquarters, 405 East 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017.
The 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) is guided by the priority theme of ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, including through inclusive and equitable legal systems, the elimination of discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and the removal of structural…
How frontline communities are organizing and building power as environmental protections are rolled back.Arif Ullah is Executive Director of A2 (Anthropocene Alliance), a national coalition of frontline groups advocating for environmental health and protection. He is a social and environmental justice advocate, grassroots urban…
Rapid growth in electricity demand from data centers and cryptocurrency mining has already begun to affect the U.S. electricity grid, with impacts likely to grow over the next five years. We use a detailed energy system optimization model to evaluate how projected demand through 2030 may influence electricity generation,…
Noah Zucker is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University, specializing in international and comparative political economy. He studies the political economy of climate change, with associated interests in bureaucracy, finance, identity, and labor. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political…
