Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

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, teaching and impact.

Empowering people, driving solutions for a sustainable world

Today’s problems are complex and interconnected, and so are the solutions. Addressing the 21st century’s most pressing climate and sustainability challenges requires new levels of collaboration and action across disciplines, sectors, and scales of impact. 

Through solutions-focused research and education enabled by deep partnerships across Brown and beyond, IBES aims to be an engine of real-world impact and a training ground for the next generation of changemakers building a just, sustainable world.  

Grounded in a culture that promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, nimble innovation, public engagement, and equitable outcomes, we seek to bolster knowledge-to-action pathways in Providence, across the nation, and around the world.

Celebrating 10 Years

 

As IBES marks a decade of impact, we reflect on our journey, achievements, and vision for a bright future.

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Featured event

Commencement Forum — The Climate Landscape in 2025: Legal and Policy Responses

The federal landscape of climate law and policy is shifting rapidly. Hear how experts in public interest law, academia, and government are navigating these changes on Saturday, May 24, during IBES' 2025 Commencement Forum with the Watson Institute.

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With their election to the prestigious honor society, eight members of the Brown University faculty join the nation’s leading scholars in science, public affairs, business, arts and the humanities.
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Possibly Podcast

Looking at the science behind proposed solutions to environmental challenges, to help listeners cut through the noise and make choices that, possibly, will make a difference.

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Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES)
Brown University
Box 1951
85 Waterman Street
Providence, RI 02912
Phone: 401-863-3449
environment@brown.edu