Institute at Brown for Environment & Society: IBES
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.
Equitable Climate Futures: Seeding Collaborative Action: Information Disinformation & Education
Equitable Climate Futures: Seeding Collaborative Action: Equitable Solutions to Climate Problems
Equitable Climate Futures: Seeding Collaborative Action: Health, Aging, & Climate Change
Equitable Climate Futures: Seeding Collaborative Action: Climate Hazards & Resilience
Values at Risk 2025: Nature, Climate, and the Systemic Risk to our Economic Future
IBES Director Kim Cobb: What’s next for climate and sustainability leadership at Brown?
GIS Career Panel
Usable Climate Science: Calculating Climate Risk in an Era of Extremes
IBES: Empowering people, driving solutions for a sustainable world
IBES Departmental Ceremony 2025
The Business of Climate: Entrepreneurial Innovations for a More Sustainable Future
FSIcon 2025: Tom Steyer Keynote
Values at Risk: Nature, Climate, and the Systemic Risk to our Economic Future
Summer stories: Students showcase IBES-funded experiences
Celebrating 10 Years of IBES: Empowering people, driving solutions for a sustainable world
Town Hall & Reception
Virtual Book Talk: "Elemental" with Professor Stephen Porder
260th Convocation Keynote Address: "Your Climate Inheritance"
IBES Alumni Panel Discussion: “Frontiers in Private Sector Climate Action”
"Indigenous Russia and the War in Ukraine" panel: Pavel Sulyandziga II sings traditional Udege song
From Vision to Reality: Spotlight on IBES-Funded Student Experiences
Panel Discussion with Dr. Sacoby Wilson, "Community-Engaged Scholarship at IBES & Beyond"
Dr. Sacoby Wilson, "The Promise of Community-Engaged Scholarship: Lessons from the Field of EJ"
Timmons Roberts: the Climate Social Science Network & reducing climate obstruction
IBES Strategic Plan Overview & Community Town Hall - January 2023
America's Leadership on Climate Change: Climate Expert Kim Cobb on CNN This Morning
Mind the Climate Gap: Is Finance Stepping up on Climate as Governments Fail?
Environmental Justice Research and Undergraduate Ecology Education: Next Steps
Charging ahead: Prepaid electricity metering in South Africa
Through the Fire and Smoke: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions to Western U.S. Wildfires