News + Media: Risk Analysis
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Jul 01, 2018
Improved MIT Earth System Model an effective tool for analyzing climate risk to energy, water and land resources
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News Release
Oct 19, 2017
![Photo: “In the Southwest, water availability for irrigation is already a concern,” says Elodie Blanc, a research scientist at MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. “If we mitigate, this could prevent added stress associated with climate change and a severe decrease in runoff in the western United States. But it will be even worse in the future if we don’t do anything at all.” (Source: MIT) MIT-Future-Irrigation.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/MIT-Future-Irrigation.jpg?itok=xBBnhucs)
In The News
MIT ClimateX | Sep 25, 2017
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![Photo: Joint Program-affiliated PhD student Sarah Fletcher (MIT Engineering Systems) (right) with (from left) Abby Onencan (Delft University of Technology), Joint Program research assistant Kathleen Mulvaney (MIT Technology and Policy Program), Kunbi Adetona (University of Calgary) and Anjuli Jain Figueroa (MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), at the Technology Management and Policy Graduate Consortium in June in Stony Brook, New York (Photo courtesy of Sarah Fletcher) Fletcher_Awards_Photo.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/Fletcher_Awards_Photo.jpg?itok=oy25bGTI)
News Release
Jun 28, 2017