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Joint Program Founding Co-Director Emeritus Henry Jacoby comments (Associated Press) (Related: AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — It won’t rival Netflix for drama, but 40 world leaders will try to save the planet from ever worsening global warming in a two-day climate summit livestreamed for binge viewing.
While there will be many faces on screen, this will clearly be President Joe Biden’s show.
Symposium highlights ambitious goals of MIT–industry research targeting technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (MIT Energy Initiative)
MIT is committed to driving the transition to a low-carbon world, throwing the full weight of its research forces into transformative technologies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But “MIT can’t solve climate change alone,” said Maria T. Zuber, MIT's vice president for research and the E....
If the pandemic revealed what could be considered low-hanging fruit in the climate fight, it also highlighted the sheer scope of the problem. (NBC News)
April 22, 2021, 6:00 AM EDT / Updated April 22, 2021, 9:13 AM EDT
By Denise Chow
A federal energy efficiency and clean electricity standard is doable, but getting one through Congress won’t be easy (The American Prospect)
President Biden’s American Jobs Plan has put the United States on an aggressive path toward a clean electricity standard (CES) that, at least for the moment, is ambitious in scope and vague in the particulars. The administration would require electric utilities to incorporate specified amounts...
In a Boston Globe op-ed, MIT’s president argues that the US must invest in new breakthroughs while also deploying all available tools today
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts recently passed a climate bill that sets a target of net-zero emissions for the state by the year 2050. The bill is one of several successful legislative efforts in Northeastern states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 80 to 100 percent by...
Allocating CO2 to the “owner country” best meets equity and effectiveness criteria (Commentary: Boston University)
International ships carry roughly 90 percent of global trade by volume and produce more CO2 emissions annually than Saudi Arabia, at two percent of of global emissions.
Despite this, neither international treaties nor domestic policies control CO2 emissions from international maritime...
The long-term goals of the Paris Agreement—keeping global warming well below 2°C and ideally 1.5°C in order to avert the worst impacts of climate change—may not be achievable by greenhouse gas emissions-reduction measures alone. Most scenarios for meeting these targets also require the...
An interview with Dr. John M. Reilly (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Social Impact Review)
Joint Program Co-Director Emeritus John Reilly featured in CNBC/Total advertorial