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Energy Futures highlights MIT Joint Program study
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Energy transition could leave fossil energy producers and investors with costly stranded assetsMARK DWORTZAN · JANUARY 25, 2023 · MIT JOINT PROGRAM ON THE SCIENCE AND POLICY OF GLOBAL CHANGE

Heavy-duty vehicles contribute about 23 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector (Popular Science)
Last December, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized its emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles as part of its Clean Trucks Plan, clean air regulations that aim to reduce greenhouse gasses (GHG) and pollutants from the transportation sector.

New technologies, including one fuel extracted from the atmosphere itself, could make flying more sustainable. But the challenges are many and the timeline is uncertain. (New York Times)
By Paige McClanahan
Jan. 19, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ET
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New research quantifies how much very hot temperatures restrict outdoor activity in China
Extreme temperatures make people less likely to pursue outdoor activities they would otherwise make part of their daily routine, a new study led by MIT researchers has confirmed.
The data-rich study, set in China, shows that when hourly temperatures reach 30 degrees Celsius (86...

MIT Joint Program Deputy Director C. Adam Schlosser served on report's Climate Science Review Panel; Research Scientist Kenneth Strzepek served on its Climate Assessment Consultant Team (Boston Globe)
Climate change is set to take a massive toll on Massachusetts’ public health, ecosystems, infrastructure, and economy before the century’s end, according to a recent state report.
The massive 2022 Climate Change Assessment reviews the latest climate science to predict the ways global...

MIT Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev notes need to further reduce emissions associated with EV production and power sources (Men's Journal)
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Health benefits of using wind energy instead of fossil fuels could quadruple if the most polluting power plants are selected for dialing down, new study finds (MIT News) (Coverage: US News & World Report, HealthDay, The HIll, The Verge, Technology Review)
Nearly 10 percent of today’s electricity in the United States comes from wind power. The renewable energy source benefits climate, air quality, and public health by displacing emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants that would otherwise be produced by fossil-fuel-based power plants....

Inaugural WORLDING workshops matched world-class climate story teams with relevant labs and researchers across MIT (Open Documentary Lab)
Imagine entering a 3D virtual story world that’s a digital twin of an existing physical space but also doubles as a vessel to dream up speculative climate stories and collective designs. Then, those imagined worlds are translated back into concrete plans for our physical spaces.

Delegates from MIT attended COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where international climate negotiations went down to the wire (MIT Office of the Vice President for Research)
As the 2022 United Nations climate change conference, known as COP27, stretched into its final hours on Saturday, Nov. 19, it was uncertain what kind of agreement might emerge from two weeks of intensive international negotiations.
In the end, COP27 produced mixed results: on the one hand...