The bioeconomy aims to replace fossil-based, non-renewable products with those derived from biological resources and processes. The bioeconomy intersects with carbon dioxide removal (CDR) through nature-based and engineered pathways such as afforestation/reforestation, biochar, and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage…
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,…
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…
The United Nations remains one of the world’s most influential multilateral institutions, operating across a wide range of thematic areas peace and security, development, human rights, climate change, education, health and humanitarian assistance. For many students and young graduates, building a career at the United Nations or…
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…
United Nations Headquarters, 405 East 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017.
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…
