Recent investments in clean energy R&D have led to remarkable innovations in clean energy technology. These innovations hold the promise of slowing and perhaps even reversing decades of anthropogenic climate change.

But in order to fully realize the promise of clean energy innovation, we also need social innovation: social impact R&D aimed at finding the interventions, programs, and policies that can shift decision-making and behavior in the direction of reducing harmful emissions.

In 2022 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that “changes to lifestyles and behavior have the potential for large reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions.” Social impact R&D can help us find the interventions, programs, and policies that will lead to these climate-protecting changes in lifestyles and behavior.

In partnership with The Conversation and SAGE Publishing, the Agenda Fund is hosting an important conversation with leading social and behavioral scientists and climate thought leaders to discuss: 

• what we know about cost-effective and scalable interventions to shift decision-making and behavior in the direction of reducing harmful emissions;
• the potential return on investment from expanding this knowledge base.

The event, “Is Behavior the Solution? Setting a Research Agenda for Climate Change Mitigation,” will take place Friday, June 9, 2023 from 9am to 2pm ET at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Global Headquarters, 420 5th Avenue, New York, NY. Please contact us at agendafund@ssrc.org if you are interested in attending.

Climate Change Mitigation

Defining an Agenda for Social Impact R&D

June 9, 2023

The Rockefeller Foundation Global Headquarters

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