Jennie Stephens

Op-ed by Jennie C. Stephens, a professor of climate justice at Maynooth University in Ireland and professor of sustainability science and policy at Northeastern University in the US.

What is a climate justice university, and how can our universities transform into institutions that truly promote the well-being of the earth and humanity? In her new book, Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future for All, Jennie C. Stephens, a professor at Northeastern University sets out to answer that question.

“Carbon capture and storage essentially perpetuates fossil fuel reliance. It’s a distraction and a delay tactic,” says Jennie Stephens, a climate justice researcher at Northeastern University in Boston. She adds that there is little focus on understanding the psychological, social, economic and political barriers that prevent communities from shifting away from fossil fuels and forging […]

Jennie C. Stephens is Dean’s professor of sustainability science and policy, Northeastern University. 

By Jennie C. Stephens, professor of Sustainability Science and Policy at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass.  

“A very small group of individuals with a lot of financing, they’re pushing for this,” says Jennie Stephens, a professor of sustainability science and policy at Northeastern University. “The advocates are very good fundraisers.”

“Solar geoengineering is getting mainstream in a way that’s almost inevitable that we’re going to do it,” said Jennie Stephens, a sustainability and policy scientist at Northeastern University.