Benjamin Sovacool

'The Sociotechnical Dynamics of Carbon Removal and Solar Geoengineering'

Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool is University Distinguished Professor of Business & Social Sciences at Aarhus University in Denmark. He works as a researcher and consultant on issues related pertaining to energy policy, energy justice, energy security, climate change mitigation, and climate change adaptation.

More specifically, his research focuses on renewable energy and energy efficiency, the politics of large-scale energy infrastructure, the ethics and morality of energy decisions, designing public policy to improve energy security and access to electricity, and building adaptive capacity to the consequences of climate change.

His research has been endorsed by U.S. President Bill Clinton, the Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland, and the late Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom, among others.  He was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), published in 2022, and he serves on the Board on Environmental Change and Society for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States.

ERC Project - Sociotechnical Pathways for a Zero-Emissions Future (project GENIE)