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MIT Sloan School of Management (Ideas Made to Matter) | Dec 30, 2019
Climate change is a global threat, but solutions involve a superhuman level of sacrifice and awareness, says MIT Sloan’s Christopher Knittel
Climate change: Most of the world agrees it’s a danger, but how do we conquer it? What’s holding us back? Christopher Knittel, professor of applied economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, laid out five of the biggest challenges in a recent interview.
Commentary
The Hill | Dec 21, 2019
In aftermath of COP25, MIT Joint Program Founding Co-Director Emeritus Henry Jacoby and co-authors call for heightened efforts to inform the public of what's at stake in the climate crisis (The Hill)
BY RICHARD RICHELS, GARY YOHE AND HENRY D. JACOBY, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS — 12/20/19 12:00 PM EST 430
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
News Release
MIT Energy Initiative | Dec 21, 2019
MIT Joint Program research assistant Erin Smith discussed the role of economics and policy in scaling up low-carbon energy technologies
CHARLIE WOLFSON · DECEMBER 20, 2019 · MITEI
In The News
MetroWest Daily News | Dec 19, 2019
Local infrastructure should be designed based on more recent storm data, says Joint Program Research Scientist Kenneth Strzepek (MetroWest Daily News)
Aging dams in MetroWest and the Milford area a budget burden, pose danger
STORY BY JEANNETTE HINKLE
A group of people who live up and downstream of the South Natick dam stood in a loose circle, yards from where the Charles River pours over the dam’s spillway.
It was early November...
Dec 18, 2019
Chevron Fellow and Senior Technical Advisor for Climate Change Arthur Lee interviews MIT Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev at the COP25 climate negotiations in Madrid
Commentary
pv magazine | Dec 12, 2019
MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly highlights constraints on batteries in an intermittent renewable-dominated power sector (pv magazine) (Additional coverage: pv magazine)
MIT responds: batteries are critical to the future electric grid, but they have their limits
Recognizing their critical role in the future grid, MIT still sees limits to batteries in an intermittent renewable-dominated power sector. In this op-ed, John Reilly, co-director of the MIT Joint...
News Brief
Dec 11, 2019
MIT Joint Program researchers explore science and policy implications at BU workshop
On December 3 and 4, Boston University convened a workshop exploring how synthetic biology—the engineering of genetic “circuits” in living cells and organisms to enable them to perform specified tasks—can help address climate change. Participants, who included thought leaders in science,...
In The News
InsideEPA | Dec 10, 2019
Joint Program Research Scientist Jennifer Morris explains findings from Mobility of the Future report (InsideEPA)
Experts with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say efforts to decarbonize vehicles and reduce mobile source greenhouse gas emissions will depend on strengthening federal corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for gasoline-fueled vehicles and creating a low-carbon...
MIT News | Dec 10, 2019
MIT symposium looks at the role of advances in storage, solar, nuclear, EVs and more in cutting greenhouse gas emissions
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office December 9, 2019
The generation of electricity is a huge contributor to the world’s emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases, producing some 25 percent globally. That’s because more than two-thirds of the world’s electricity is still being...
In The News
Power Engineering | Dec 06, 2019
Keeping nuclear power vital may be the best way to reach aggressive carbon reduction targets while avoiding a steep carbon price (Power Engineering)
Rod Walton12.5.19
Keeping nuclear power vital may be the best way to reach aggressive carbon reduction goals while avoiding a steep added price, such as a tax, on emissions in the U.S..