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In this talk, recorded at BESI on September 30, 2025, Cambridge researcher Luke Kemp explores the ways explore the ways growth-obsessed, extractive institutions like the fossil fuel industry, Big Tech, and military-industrial complexes rule our world and produce new ways of annihilating our species

For he majority of its history, decarbonization policy focused on distributing the burden of climate change mitigation. Recently, however, decarbonization has a competitive turn, BESI Climate lead Jonas Meckling observes in a new article for Nature.

In a recent article for the BiGS Actionable Intelligence, the blog for the Institute for Business in a Global Society (BiGS) at Harvard Business School, BESI Climate research lead Jonas Meckling observes that with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the U.S. is taking "significant steps back” on clean energy.

In early April, business leaders, policy experts, and academics convened in Boston for the first-ever symposium hosted by the new Green Industrial Strategy (GISt) Project to discuss the future of the green industrial strategy "golden age" of the early 2020s.

BESI Director Paul Pierson and BESI Climate lead Jonas Meckling recently offered insights in the New York Times.

BESI Hosts Heather Boushey, Member of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers and Chief Economist to the Invest in America Cabinet.