Dear all, Limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require rapid and deep alteration of attitudes, norms, incentives, politics and international affairs. Some of the most burning unsolved climate-change and energy transition puzzles are therefore in the realm of the social sciences. However, these are precisely the fields that receive least funding for climate-related research.
Our new article analyses a new dataset of research grants from 332 donors around the world spanning 4.3 million awards with a cumulative value of USD 1.3 trillion from 1950 to 2021. Between 1990 and 2018, the natural and technical sciences received 770% more funding than the social sciences for research on issues related to climate change. Only 0.12% of all research funding was spent on the social science of climate mitigation. Read the whole analysis here, available open access to all: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629619309119?via%3Dihub Sincerely, Benjamin Sovacool and Indra Overland -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/93107CD5AE4BB14F965835AE970D42BC01184395F6%40EX-SHA-MBX2.ad.susx.ac.uk.
