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Pickup trucks and vans are lined up outside a General Motors assembly plant. As the U.S. economy awakens from its pandemic-induced slumber, a vital cog is in short supply: the computer chips that power our cars and other vehicles, and a vast number of other items we take for granted.(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

New research will assess how corporate-cleantech start-up partnerships can catalyze climate and energy innovation This new research, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, aims to explore how the growing interactions between corporations and cleantech start-ups are shaping climate and energy innovation outcomes.

“Policy change not climate change” is a slogan that climate activist Greta Thunberg and environmental justice advocates have echoed to policymakers. Amid the environmental health issues that routinely disproportionately affect low-income populations and communities of color, there has been an ongoing impasse in environmental policymaking that further impacts vulnerable communities, according to a new publication.