Center for Energy and Climate Change - Next

Research topics

Our research has two main themes: clean energy and climate change.

Clean Energy

1. Battery innovation, clean energy storage, and recycling
2. Sustainable electrification planning
3. Clean/Green Hydrogen production, storage, and distribution
4. Solar-powered energy sources
5. Other clean-energy sources (e.g., geothermal, hydroelectric)
6. Environmental cost of new scaled-up energy technology
7. Sustainable architecture
8. Grid physical & economic resilience
9. Critical minerals exploration and green/clean mining
10. Design approaches to Net Zero
11. Consumer acceptance and behavior of Net Zero solutions
12. Bio-based manufacturing and biopolymers
13. Negative carbon energy sources (including carbon capture and storage)

Climate Change

1. Food and/or water resources and security on the changing planet
2. Municipal solid waste management
3. Climate-driven air quality issues
4. Biodiversity protection/ conservation/ restoration
5. Climate-ready/resilient agriculture/aquaculture/fisheries
6. Climate-ready/resilient cities and infrastructures
7. Nature-based solutions to climate change
8. Climate-resilient economy and supply chain
9. Carbon-neutral society/circular carbon economy
10. Greenhouse gas mitigation
11. Decarbonization/Carbon Capture/Direct Air Capture
12. Building knowledge and guidance into best practices & policy
13. Climate risk assessment tools tailored to local needs
14. Disaster resilience, e.g., flood/sea level rise-, storm-, heat wave-, extreme weather
15. Transport resilience in the changing planet
16. Economics, policy, and social sciences for climate-resilience solutions
17. Computational methods and data sciences for climate risk analytics