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The misallocation of climate research funding
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posted on 2023-06-12, 09:13 authored by Indra Overland, Benjamin SovacoolBenjamin SovacoolThe 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 research. This article analyzes a new dataset of research grants from 332 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 climate change. Only 0.12% of all research funding was spent specifically on the social science of climate mitigation.
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Energy Research & Social ScienceISSN
2214-6296Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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62Article number
a101349Department affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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2019-11-12First Open Access (FOA) Date
2020-01-09First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-11-11Usage metrics
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