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MIT News | Nov 08, 2016
Emissions trading would be more effective than mileage standards, new study shows
As the European Union contemplates new policies aimed at meeting its emissions-reduction commitments under last year’s Paris Agreement on climate change, a new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere could provide some valuable guidance on the most effective strategy.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | Nov 02, 2016
How a shift from fossil fuels to low-carbon technologies could alter today’s balance of power
If the Paris Agreement leads to an energy transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon technologies, fossil-fuel-producing nations will likely wield far less geopolitical power than they do now. “Instead of focusing on just two major...
In The News
MIT News | Oct 20, 2016
MIT’s vice president for research discusses the challenges ahead for MIT and the world
At this time last year, President L. Rafael Reif announced the Institute’s five-year plan for responding to the risks posed by climate change. Maria Zuber, vice president for research and the E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, has been coordinating MIT’s climate action efforts since the plan’s...
In The News
Washington Post | Oct 14, 2016
Overreliance on negative emissions as solution could prevent global climate stabilization
While noting that carbon capture and storage (CCS) could be combined with biomass to produce negative net emissions, MIT Energy Initiative/Joint Program Senior Research Engineer and CCS expert Howard Herzog argues that “the focus of today...
In The News
Nature | Oct 07, 2016
Two decades after the genocide in Rwanda, the country is harnessing science and technology to rebuild its economy
In 2017, after earning his PhD, MIT Joint Program-affiliated graduate student Jimmy Gasore aims to return to Rwanda to continue work on the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) climate observatory that he helped establish.
News Release
MIT News | Sep 29, 2016
At Climate Week conference, MIT Joint Program lays out the 2C challenge for oil and gas producers
News Release
Sep 28, 2016
Even if the Paris Climate Agreement is Implemented, Food and Water Supplies Remain At Risk
2016 Food, Water, Energy & Climate Outlook projects global impacts of COP21, identifies emissions paths/energy technology advances needed to limit global warming to 2°C
Around Campus
MIT News | Sep 21, 2016
In open letter, 375 National Academy of Sciences members warn against opting out of Paris Agreement.
Sarah McDonnell | MIT News Office
In The News
Wall Street Journal | Sep 16, 2016
WSJ Energy Expert: attention centered around carbon pricing is distracting from other needed energy actions.
The author cites research by the Joint Program’s Valerie Karplus and Jesse Jenkins that finds the “binding constraints” of politics set carbon prices far lower than the true social cost of carbon.
Researcher Highlight
Sep 13, 2016
Stephanie Dutkiewicz' phytoplankton models project the future of the ocean as food source and carbon sink