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News Release • China Energy & Climate Project
Jan 17, 2020
How concurrent climate and air pollution policies could prove a win-win combination
In 2013, more than 100 nations sought to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury with the Minamata Convention on Mercury. Two years later, nearly 200 nations aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Jan 16, 2020
In The News
Washington Examiner | Jan 13, 2020
Commentary cites Joint Program Report highlighting the need for diverse energy resources to power the grid (Washington Examiner)
by Lynn Good
| January 13, 2020 12:00 AM
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Jan 07, 2020
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MIT Energy Initiative | Jan 06, 2020
MIT participants discuss their COP25 impressions and projects
Credit: Suzanne Greene
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MIT News | Jan 06, 2020
How the global energy mix could change over the next 20 years
When it comes to fulfilling ambitious energy and climate commitments, few nations successfully walk their talk. A case in point is the Paris Agreement initiated four years ago. Nearly 200 signatory nations submitted voluntary pledges to cut their contribution to the world’s greenhouse gas...
Around Campus
MIT Sloan School of Management (Ideas Made to Matter) | Dec 30, 2019
Climate change is a global threat, but solutions involve a superhuman level of sacrifice and awareness, says MIT Sloan’s Christopher Knittel
Climate change: Most of the world agrees it’s a danger, but how do we conquer it? What’s holding us back? Christopher Knittel, professor of applied economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, laid out five of the biggest challenges in a recent interview.
Commentary
The Hill | Dec 21, 2019
In aftermath of COP25, MIT Joint Program Founding Co-Director Emeritus Henry Jacoby and co-authors call for heightened efforts to inform the public of what's at stake in the climate crisis (The Hill)
BY RICHARD RICHELS, GARY YOHE AND HENRY D. JACOBY, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS — 12/20/19 12:00 PM EST 430
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
News Release
MIT Energy Initiative | Dec 21, 2019
MIT Joint Program research assistant Erin Smith discussed the role of economics and policy in scaling up low-carbon energy technologies
CHARLIE WOLFSON · DECEMBER 20, 2019 · MITEI
In The News
MetroWest Daily News | Dec 19, 2019
Local infrastructure should be designed based on more recent storm data, says Joint Program Research Scientist Kenneth Strzepek (MetroWest Daily News)
Aging dams in MetroWest and the Milford area a budget burden, pose danger
STORY BY JEANNETTE HINKLE
A group of people who live up and downstream of the South Natick dam stood in a loose circle, yards from where the Charles River pours over the dam’s spillway.
It was early November...