The Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES) leads Brown's ECF initiative, uniting faculty for strategic climate research. Leveraging its unique interdisciplinary strengths and new Strategic Plan, IBES will support ECF with assets like communication staff and meeting spaces. However, ECF’s success also relies on deep partnerships among core units (School of Public Health, Watson Institute, School of Engineering, and Swearer Center) and sustained engagement of researchers. Once established, ECF’s structures and teams will position Brown for federal funding opportunities from NSF, NIH, and NOAA for climate solutions.
Equitable Climate Futures
Partners
Recognizing the value of strategic cross-campus synergies, the initiative is grounded in deep partnership between several Brown departments.
Partners
Recognizing the value of strategic cross-campus synergies, the initiative is grounded in deep partnership between several Brown departments.
Core Partners
The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES) is accelerating solutions to the most complex climate and sustainability challenges of our time through interdisciplinary research and teaching.
Throughout its teaching and research, the School of Public Health trains future public health leaders, advances knowledge on pressing health challenges and enhances population health and well-being.
The Watson Institute is a community of scholars, practitioners, and students whose work aims to help us understand and address these critical challenges. It is dedicated to meaningful social science research and teaching and animated by the conviction that informed policy can change systems and societies for the better.
Brown educates future leaders in the fundamentals of engineering in an environment of collaborative, world-class research centered on solving pressing global challenges.
The Swearer Center’s work is intended to catalyze student learning and commitment to lifelong civic engagement and responsibility in order to advance social justice. The Center is an important agent of Brown’s intent and obligation to ensure that the University makes meaningful, positive, and sustainable contributions to the public good.
Collaborating Centers and Departments
The Center provides a dynamic environment in which our researchers contribute to the resolution of human population issues in the 21st century through interdisciplinary collaborations with a global perspective.
DEEPS integrates teaching and research to investigate fundamental phenomena affecting the Earth and planets. Our students engage in hands-on learning, in collaboration with DEEPS faculty, to explore natural hazards, global climate, and planetary bodies.
The Climate and Development Lab is a student-faculty think tank informing a more just, equitable and effective climate change policy.
Brown's Initiative for Sustainable Energy activates research and educates future leaders in sustainable zero-carbon energy solutions.
Collaborate with Equitable Climate Futures
Please get in touch via email at ecf@brown.edu if ECF presents opportunities for collaboration with your organization’s efforts to advance climate solutions.