June Sekera is a public policy practitioner and scholar whose work focuses on the public economy and the role of government in addressing climate change. Sekera is a visiting scholar at The New School for Social Research, where she has directed projects to study climate change mitigation methods. Her 2020 paper, “Assessing Carbon Capture: Public Policy, Science and Societal Need,” was cited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 2022 Working Group III report. Most recently, a study she wrote with five co-researchers, “Carbon Dioxide Removal – What’s Worth Doing? A Biophysical and Public Need Perspective,” has been published in PLOS Climate.
Sekera is also a senior research fellow at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center, and a senior research associate at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London. Prior to her academic work, she was a public policy practitioner, with more than 30 years of experience at federal, state and local levels of government. She holds a master's degree in public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Her economics training was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
According to the IPCC’s Working Group III report, carbon capture is one of the least-effective, most-expensive climate change mitigation options on Earth.
