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Nature Climate Change | Jan 16, 2015
Anna Petherick writes for Nature Climate Change about emissions pledges from the United States and China for, including emissions projections from China Energy and Climate Project.
Anna Petherick writes for Nature Climate Change about emissions pledges from the United States and China for, including emissions projections from China Energy and Climate Project.
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EE News | Jan 15, 2015
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Amanda Peterka | E&E reporter
Bioenergy production would boom and spur steep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions if a global price is slapped on carbon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say in a report released today.
Examining bioenergy production under a $...
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Link to Article | Dec 10, 2014
The announcement of a joint pledge to cut emissions between the world's two largest carbon emitters: the United States and China, made global headlines when it was announced in November. In this interview, Valerie Karplus, an asssistant professor in MIT's Sloan School of Managment, discusses the details of the deal.
by Jesse Jenkins | The Energy Collective
Jesse Jenkins: Even before world leaders descended on Lima, Peru this week for United Nations-sponsored climate negotiations, climate diplomacy made global headlines with the joint announcement of a partnership between the world's two...
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Link to Article | Dec 03, 2014
Study shows that the effects of smaller eruptions have been underestimated in climate models.
by David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
New research shows that relatively small volcanic eruptions can increase aerosol particles in the atmosphere, temporarily mitigating the global warming caused by greenhouse gases. The impact of such smaller eruptions has been underestimated in...
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MIT News | Dec 02, 2014
MIT researcher Sergey Paltsev discusses the outlook for LNG trading over the next several decades.
Until recently, most natural gas trade has been limited to the regional scale due to the challenges of transporting gas over long distances. Over the last decade, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)—an option that reduces the volume of gas about 600 times allowing for transportation by ship—has...
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MIT Technology Review | Nov 18, 2014
MIT China Energy and Climate Program Director Valerie Karplus talks with MIT’s Tech Review about when China’s emissions might peak.
By Mike Orcutt | MIT Technology Review
China may put a stop to growing carbon dioxide emissions earlier than expected, but how quickly they start coming down is also important.
In an agreement announced last week, China and the United States, which together account for...
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Link to Article | Nov 13, 2014
MIT News interviews Chris Knittel, who co-authored a new article in Science evaluating government's proposed emissions policy for power plants.
By Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office
With cap-and-trade legislation on greenhouse-gas emissions having stalled in Congress in 2010, the Obama administration has taken a different approach to climate policy: It has used the mandate of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to propose a...
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Washington Post | Nov 12, 2014
In this column for the Washington Post Wonk Blog, Michael Levi describes the significance of U.S.-China climate agreement, and research that may have influenced the agreement
In this column for the Washington Post Wonk Blog, Michael Levi, senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foriegn Relations, describes the significance of U.S.-China climate agreement, and research that may have influenced the agreement.
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MIT News | Oct 31, 2014
The Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment tracks global emissions and atmospheric data, but lacks data on Africa. Jimmy Gasore, 4th-year MIT graduate student, is trying to change that.
by Zach Wener-Fligner, MIT News correspondent
All around the planet, high-frequency climate observatories are collecting atmospheric data around the clock as part of the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE), a 35-year-old project to study emissions and climate change....
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Link to Article | Oct 20, 2014
New committee aims to catalyze community discussion on how MIT can help address climate change.
MIT News Office
On Sept. 19, Maria T. Zuber, MIT’s vice president for research, announced the membership of a community committee to plan and implement the MIT Climate Change Conversation. As Zuber noted, “The Committee should seek broad input from the Institute community on how the...