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News Brief
Mar 14, 2023
A new book co-authored by MIT Joint Program Founding Co-Director Emeritus Henry Jacoby
From the Back Cover
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News Brief
Mar 07, 2023
Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev speaks on feasibility of 1.5°C target

To meet the Paris Agreement’s long-term goal of keeping global climate change well below two degrees Celsius—and ideally below 1.5°C—the world needs to rapidly reduce carbon dioxide emissions and scale up low-carbon technologies. Global leaders, activists and some scientists say the 1.5°C target...

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News Release
The first public release of our Annual Report highlights 2022 progress, 2023 plans
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News Release
Amundi | Feb 28, 2023

Amundi has selected three research initiatives in 2023: EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute, OS-Climate by Linux Foundation, and the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (Source: Amundi)

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In The News
MIT Joint Program | Feb 27, 2023
Episode explores technological innovations needed by 2050 to keep global climate targets in play (RTVE)

Electrification of the energy system will be key to decarbonizing countries around the world sufficiently to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius, says MIT Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev in “From Oil to the Stars,” the first part of the documentary series 10,000 Days, which was aired on...

Feb 27, 2023

Episode explores technological innovations needed by 2050 to keep global climate targets in play

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News Release
MIT News | Feb 14, 2023
New modeling tool enables rapid design of effective and equitable policy combinations

Climate policies are typically designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that result from human activities and drive climate change. The largest source of these emissions is the combustion of fossil fuels, which increases atmospheric concentrations of ozone, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and...

Stranded Assets
In The News
Energy Futures | Jan 26, 2023

Energy Futures highlights MIT Joint Program study

NEWS

Energy transition could leave fossil energy producers and investors with costly stranded assets

MARK DWORTZAN    ·    JANUARY 25, 2023    ·    MIT JOINT PROGRAM ON THE SCIENCE AND POLICY OF GLOBAL CHANGE

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In The News
Popular Science | Jan 20, 2023

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.

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In The News
New York Times | Jan 19, 2023

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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