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MIT News | Jan 24, 2024
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News Release
Global Changes - Fall 2023 Newsletter | Jan 22, 2024
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MIT Climate Portal | Jan 10, 2024
![Photo: From left – Marcela Angel, Research Program Director, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative; Mark Ortiz, Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar, Faculty Affiliate, Penn State Sustainability Institute; Joyce Mendez, Youth Leader, Colombia and Paraguay, UN Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change; Sergey Paltsev, Deputy Director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Bethany Patten, Director of Policy Engagement, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative; Benjamin Zaitchik, GeoHealth Past President, AGU and JHU; and Maria Zuber, MIT Vice President for Research (Photo courtesy of Deborah Campbell, MIT) COP28_Picture_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/COP28_Picture_WEB.jpg?itok=J_3VYpqq)
![Photo: As global warming edges closer to 1.5°C—the aspirational upper limit set in the Paris Agreement—ushering in more intense and frequent heatwaves, floods, wildfires and other climate extremes much sooner than many expected, current greenhouse gas emissions-reduction policies are far too weak to keep the planet from exceeding that threshold. The 2023 Global Change Outlook presents the MIT Joint Program’s latest projections for the future of the Earth’s energy, food, water and climate systems under existing global climate policies and those aligned with the 1.5°C target—and evaluates prospects for achieving the Paris Agreement’s short- and long-term climate goals. (Source: iStock/Eric Overton) Cover_WEB.png](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/Cover_WEB.png?itok=OVjxnZeH)
News Release
MIT News | Nov 29, 2023
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Commentary
The Hill | Nov 28, 2023
![To prevent worsening and potentially irreversible effects of climate change, the world’s average temperature should not exceed that of preindustrial times by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). But why 1.5 degrees C? Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT MIT-explainer-15c-01-press_0.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/MIT-explainer-15c-01-press_0.jpg?itok=Sy70ho1h)
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School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences | Nov 20, 2023