News and Events and Other Outreach
Communication is a key objective of the Program that is pursued through many channels, including news outlets, educational events, professional activities, and the Global Change Forum. The Program places a high priority on conveying our research results, analysis methods and assessment conclusions to a broad range of audiences. These include fellow researchers and students in the climate community, as well as policymakers, industry leaders, environmental organizations, educators, the press, and the public.
Individual Program faculty, staff and graduate students participate in many activities where they communicate the research results and interpret the policy relevance of the analytical work. These venues include workshops and conferences, testimony to policymakers, corporate and government briefings, media interviews, teaching and coursework, seminars and other events, public lectures and presentations, and an extensive collection of publications made available on the Internet.
Recent News Stories
3 Questions: Sergey Paltsev on the costs of climate-change legislation
November 5, 2009 - MIT News
Renewable fuels may have hidden costs, study says
October 23, 2009 - MIT News
How to limit risk of climate catastrophe
October 2, 2009 - MIT News
A hard rain's gonna fall
August 17, 2009 - MIT News
Greenhouse gases made visible
June 22, 2009 - MIT News
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Cities and America's Place in the Renewable Economy
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm, 10-485
Speaker: Prof. Joan Fitzgerald, Northeastern University; Director, Law, Policy and Society Program. Abstract: In the absence of national renewable energy industry policy, many U.S. cities have implemented policies and programs to promote renewable energy. Cities that have tried to crea ... More
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Microbiological Soil Sink for Atmospheric Hydrogen - Implications for its use as a Future Energy Carrier
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, 48-316
Laura Meredith, Ph.D. candidate in EAPS, will deliver a seminar on "Investigations of the dominating microbiological soil sink for atmospheric hydrogen and implications for its use as a future major energy carrier," as part of The Microbial Systems (and Beyond) Seminar @ Parsons.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Energy 101: Climate Science
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, 56-154
As a part of the Energy 101 lecture series put on by the MIT Energy Club, EAPS graduate student Rebecca Dell will give a primer on climate science with a focus on the effects of carbon dioxide on the environment. The lecture will cover the methods, data, and results that indicate how are climate has ... More
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
MIT Energy Club: Carbon Capture and Sequestration Research Seminar
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm, 66-110
A panel will discuss the current state of technology in carbon capture and storate (CCS) as well as the economic, and policy-related hurdles to making it a scalable reality in the US, the EU and in China. Generation of electrical power is responsible for roughly 40% of carbon dioxide emissions in th ... More
Recent Events
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
2009 MIT Research and Development Conference
8:30 am - 5:00 pm, MIT Kresge Auditorium
This flagship MIT conference showcases a broad sampling of the Institute's most exciting and relevant research. This year's plenary sessions consider ways to leverage R&D resources in the current economic environment. In addition, attendees may choose among a number of parallel research tracks i ... More