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In The News • China Energy & Climate Project
MIT Energy Initiative | Jun 08, 2015
MIT Energy Initiative | China Energy and Climate Project researchers conclude that by designing and implementing aggressive long-term measures now, Chinese policy makers will put the nation on a path to achieve recently pledged emissions reductions with relatively modest impacts on economic growth.
By Nancy W. Stauffer, MIT Energy Initiative
Overview
Researchers from MIT and Tsinghua University in Beijing are collaborating to bring new insights into how China—now the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2)—can reverse the rising trajectory of its CO2 emissions within two decades. They...
In The News
Link to Article | Jun 05, 2015
MIT Spectrum interviews MIT alumnus Kenneth Strzepek, who led a nonpartisan panel of 17 experts to investigate the international water debate between Egypt and Ethiopia in the hopes of forging a common solution.
For millennia, Egypt has relied on the Nile River for its agriculture. So Egyptians were understandably upset in 2011 when their upstream neighbor, Ethiopia, announced plans to build a hydroelectric dam that threatened to reduce the flow out of the spigot: the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD...
Researcher Highlight
Jun 01, 2015
MIT researcher Sergey Paltsev studies how to supply the world's growing need for energy—without harming the climate.
Student Spotlight
Jun 01, 2015
MIT graduate student David Ramberg studies the link between new technology and fuel prices.
Student Spotlight
Jun 01, 2015
MIT graduate student Claudia Octaviano studies how energy storage technologies could transform the economics of renewable energy.
In The News
Road to Paris | May 18, 2015
When it comes to pricing CO2
By Daniel A. Gross
Most economists agree that if we want to efficiently reduce CO2 emissions, we’ll need to put a price on carbon. But a nagging question remains. How are we supposed to figure out a price for an invisible, amorphous gas that underpins the economy and transforms the climate?
It’s...
May 11, 2015
For the 2015 Karl Taylor Compton Lecture, MIT welcomes Professor Mario J. Molina, co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and former Institute Professor.
Around Campus
MIT News | May 05, 2015
Report highlights enormous potential and discusses pathways toward affordable solar energy.
Apr 22, 2015
What’s the science behind climate change, and how can we combat a warming climate? Those are complex questions that MIT faculty are actively pursuing. In this podcast, four MIT professors— Dan Cziczo, Kerry Emanuel, Christopher Knittel, and Andrew Whittle—will discuss their climate research on...
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MIT News | Apr 22, 2015
Report from conference at MIT addresses potential effects of huge construction project.
By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
According to present plans, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) — now under construction across the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia — will be the largest hydroelectric dam in Africa, and one of the 12 largest in the world. But controversy has surrounded the...