Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
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 and teaching.
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
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 and teaching.
Empowering people, driving solutions
Today’s problems are complex and interconnected, and so are the solutions. Addressing the 21st century’s most pressing climate and sustainability challenges requires new levels of collaboration and action across disciplines, sectors, and scales of impact.
Through solutions-focused research and education enabled by deep partnerships across Brown and beyond, IBES aims to be an engine of real-world impact and a training ground for the next generation of changemakers building a just, sustainable world.
Grounded in a culture that promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, nimble innovation, public engagement, and equitable outcomes, we seek to bolster knowledge-to-action pathways in Providence, across the nation, and around the world.
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IBES News
Announcing the new IBES Alumni & Family Network
The new IBES Alumni & Family Network is dedicated to fostering lasting connections and collaboration among Brown University alumni and their families who share a deep interest in climate, sustainability, and environmental matters.
Research Spotlight: Professor Jon Witman
Meet the Postdocs: Sonam Futi Sherpa
Alumna Spotlight: Nora Ong ’23
Alumna Spotlight: Vasu Jayanthi ’23
Research Spotlight: Associate Professor Bathsheba Demuth
Possibly Podcast
Looking at the science behind proposed solutions to environmental challenges, to help listeners cut through the noise and make choices that, possibly, will make a difference.

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Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES)
Brown University
Box 1951
85 Waterman Street
Providence, RI 02912
Phone: 401-863-3449
Fax: 401-863-3839
environment@brown.edu