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    How the oil and gas industry influences higher education


    Eaton, Emily and Stephens, Jennie C. (2024) How the oil and gas industry influences higher education. The Conversation newsletter.

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    Abstract

    As the climate crisis gets worse, global fossil fuel production is growing and oil and gas companies are making record profits. While the powerful influence of the fossil fuel industry’s lobbying on climate policy is increasingly acknowledged, our new research also shows how oil and gas companies are influencing universities. We are researchers with combined expertise on just energy transitions and climate justice and the university (the title of Jennie Stephens’s forthcoming book). With international colleagues we undertook the first comprehensive review of academic and civil society investigations into fossil fuel industries’ ties to higher education in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. In all four countries, the research shows multiple ways oil and gas companies have been investing in universities.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Climate crisis; fossil fuel technologies; climate action;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units, ICARUS
    Item ID: 19067
    Depositing User: Jennie Stephens
    Date Deposited: 28 Feb 2025 12:31
    Journal or Publication Title: The Conversation newsletter
    Refereed: Yes
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19067
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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