High Meadows Environmental Institute

High Meadows Environmental Institute
Founded1994 (30 years ago) (1994)
TypeThink tank
FocusEnvironment, Climate change
Location
Area served
Global
Director
Gabriel Vecchi
Parent organization
Princeton University
Websiteenvironment.princeton.edu
Formerly called
Princeton Environmental Institute

High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI, formerly the Princeton Environmental Institute, PEI) at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey is an interdisciplinary center for environmental research that studies effects of and solutions to climate change and other environmental threats.[1][2] The International Center for Climate Governance named the Princeton Environmental Institute the second-highest climate change think tank in the global category for 2012,[1] following the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.[3]

The High Meadows Environmental Institute is an interdisciplinary center for environmental research that includes over 120 researchers from 29 departments. Researchers study the causes and impacts of climate change and other key environmental issues involving energy, food, water, and biodiversity. Long-term projects include the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, the Center for Biocomplexity, and the Integrated Ground Water Modeling Center. Grand Challenges and other initiatives focus on climate change and infectious disease, food and the environment, ecohydrology, urban resilience, and sustainable development.[1][4][5]

  1. ^ a b c Durkee, Robert K. (5 April 2022). The New Princeton Companion. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-21044-5. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference PND2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "First-Ever Ranking of Climate Think Tanks". Think Tank Watch.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Kelly was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Implementing the MIT Global Environment Initiative (PDF). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2012. pp. 22–23.