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The misallocation of climate research funding

Indra Overland B. Sovacool

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Abstract The window of opportunity for mitigating climate change is narrow. Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C will require rapid and deep alteration of attitudes, norms, incentives, and politics. Some of the key 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. This article analyzes a new dataset of research grants from 333 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.

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Political Science

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Indra Overland

B. Sovacool

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Overland, I., Sovacool, B. (2020). The misallocation of climate research funding. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101349

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Lihat di Sumber doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101349

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Tahun Terbit: 2020
Bahasa: en
Total Sitasi: 191×
Sumber Database: Semantic Scholar
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2019.101349
Akses: Open Access ✓