Enabling an equitable energy transition through inclusive research

Comprehensive and meaningful inclusion of marginalized communities within the research enterprise will be critical to ensuring an equitable, technology-informed, clean energy transition. We provide five key action items for government agencies and philanthropic institutions to operationalize the commitment to an equitable energy transition.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the Energy Transition Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for hosting the workshop series that gave rise to this Comment. We also thank the following individual contributors to the workshop: Dr. Karen Whelan-Berry (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Adaora Okoro (Edison International), Morgan Scott (Energy Policy Research Institute), and Gabriel Chan (University of Minnesota Twin Cities). The authors acknowledge funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation Award #2027097 (DV, EB, MT).

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  1. Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA A. P. Ravikumar
  2. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA E. Baker
  3. Department of Environmental Studies, Colby College, Waterville, ME, USA A. Bates
  4. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA D. Nock
  5. Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA D. Venkataraman
  6. Johnson Strategy & Development Consultants, Oslo, Norway T. Johnson
  7. Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA M. Ash
  8. Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA S. Z. Attari & S. Carley
  9. Browning the Green Space, Boston, MA, USA K. Bowie
  10. Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA S. Castellanos
  11. Urban and Environmental Policy Department, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, USA M. Cha
  12. UMass ADVANCE, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA D. L. Clark
  13. The Libra Foundation, San Francisco, CA, USA D. Deane-Ryan
  14. Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, USA D. Djokic
  15. Applied Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA J. C. Ford
  16. Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA A. Goldstein
  17. Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA E. Grubert
  18. The Greenlining Institute, Oakland, CA, USA L. Hu
  19. Energy and Resources Group, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA D. M. Kammen
  20. US Agency for International Development, Washington D.C., USA D. M. Kammen
  21. Carbon180, Washington D.C., USA U. Kosar
  22. School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA C. Miller
  23. Equity Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA M. Pastor
  24. College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA M. Tuominen
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