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In The News • China Energy & Climate Project
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 largest carbon emitters...
Student Spotlight
Dec 08, 2014

“The challenge is, how can we create enough energy to support so many people in a sustainable way?” For Zhang, part of the solution is renewable energy.

Researcher Highlight
Dec 05, 2014

“Looking back, my interest in China developed out of spending a lot of time around people who were really passionate about the possibilities for their country,” Karplus says. “Working with colleagues in China over all of these years, I feel like the country has become a part of my own story.” ...

In The News
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 climate models,...
3 Questions
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 created an...
In The News • China Energy & Climate Project
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 some 45 percent of the globe’...
In The News
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 policy...
In The News • China Energy & Climate Project
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.  Read the article...
In The News
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. But there’s...
Recent Event
Oct 21, 2014
On Friday, October 17, 2014, CECP team participated in the MIT Energy Night at the MIT Museum between 6:00-9:00pm. The MIT Energy Night provides an ideal opportunity to see what energy at MIT is all about and the CECP team presented two posters and interacted with hundreds of MIT students,...

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