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![“WORLDING illustrates the emergence of an entirely new field that fuses urban planning, climate science, real-time 3D engines, nonfiction storytelling, and speculative fiction,” says Katerina Cizek, lead designer of the workshop at Co-Creation Studio, MIT Open Documentary Lab. unnamed-4.png](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/unnamed-4.png?itok=hqlAKK65)
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.
![MIT students who traveled to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for COP27 included (left to right) Anushree Chaudhuri, Evan Gao, Youssef Shaker, and Serena Patel. Photo: Anke De Boer MIT-COP27-Students_1_PHOTO.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/MIT-COP27-Students_1_PHOTO.jpg?itok=mBDmOLQQ)
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...
![Photo: MIT Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev delivered the keynote presentation at the IPIECA session on “Measuring Up to the Methane Challenge” at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (Source: IPIECA) IMG_4303_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/IMG_4303_WEB.jpg?itok=J8rsE0rJ)
On November 17 at the 27th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Deputy Director/MIT Energy Initiative Senior Research Scientist Sergey Paltsev delivered a keynote presentation on the importance...
![Robert Stoner (left) is the deputy director of science and technology at the MIT Energy Initiative and the founding director of the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design. He is also a member of the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty, serving as its secretary. Photo: Allison Bailey mit_energy_16may-91-Edit_crop.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/mit_energy_16may-91-Edit_crop.jpg?itok=RYvBGKZi)
MIT Energy Initiative deputy director takes stock of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, and their potential impacts on the energy transition (MIT Energy Initiative)
This month, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) takes place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, bringing together governments, experts, journalists, industry, and civil society to discuss climate action to enable countries to collectively sharply limit anthropogenic climate change...
![Photo: Crop residue burning in Punjab, India, is a major source of air pollution and threat to human health (Source: NASA) Eastham_NC_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/Eastham_NC_WEB.jpg?itok=ybYdfALi)
To clear the way for planting wheat in November, a farmer in Punjab, India sets aflame the left-over straw, or stubble, of a harvested rice paddy crop in October. The burning residue fills the air with carbon monoxide, ozone and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) that will make it harder to breathe...
![Ernest Moniz, former U.S. secretary of energy and founding director of the MIT Energy Initiative, gives the keynote address on how the variety of crises currently facing the world may impact the energy transition. Photo: Gretchen Ertl 0051_MITei_Conference_091322_051_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/0051_MITei_Conference_091322_051_WEB.jpg?itok=MMfszFok)
MIT Energy Initiative Annual Research Conference highlights both opportunities and obstacles in the race to a net-zero future (MIT Energy Initiative)
“The past six years have been the warmest on the planet, and our track record on climate change mitigation is drastically short of what it needs to be,” said Robert C. Armstrong, MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) director and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, introducing MITEI’s 15th...
![Electric vehicle charging station in St. Petersburg, Florida Photo: CityofStPete/Flickr Paltsev_EEEP_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/Paltsev_EEEP_WEB_0.jpg?itok=0FQ7IWwc)
Policymakers and manufacturers are working toward building new technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of cars (Power Electronics News)
In the wake of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Paris agreement) from global road transport, vehicle manufacturers are increasingly spending more and more on research and development of powertrain and fuel technologies. However, the reduction of GHG emissions from fuel and electricity...
![Photo: Being outdoors can be hazardous to your health in Anyang City, Henan Province, China (Source: Flickr/V.T. Polywoda) Atkinson_GMD_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/news/Atkinson_GMD_WEB.jpg?itok=r7DyKjVA)
As America’s largest investment to fight climate change, the Inflation Reduction Act positions the country to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.
![Tesla charging station (Source: Flickr/mbeo) Paltsev_MITClimate_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/Paltsev_MITClimate_WEB.jpg?itok=w-QuaDsn)
Yes: although electric cars' batteries make them more carbon-intensive to manufacture than gas cars, they more than make up for it by driving much cleaner under nearly any conditions. (MIT Climate Portal) (Additional Coverage: Travel Tomorrow)
October 13, 2022