Accelerating energy and low-carbon transitions as an interdisciplinary social science challenge
Join this event to hear Benjamin Sovacool discuss the issue of time in global and national energy transitions through three key questions.
Accelerating energy and low-carbon transitions as an interdisciplinary social science challenge
24 Feb 2026, 13:00 – 14:00
What does the mainstream academic literature suggest about the time scale of energy transitions? What does some of the more recent empirical data related to transitions say, or challenge, about conventional views? And what role should the social sciences play?
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Professor Benjamin K. Sovacool
Professor of Earth and Environment
Boston University
He is also the Founding Director of the Institute for Global Sustainability and Professor of Energy Policy at the Bennett Institute for Innovation and Policy Acceleration at the University of Sussex Business School.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow in the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea).
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