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Feb 01, 2018
Joint Program IAP courses review fundamentals and explore emerging trends
Amid much uncertainty about the future of the global climate and efforts aimed at preventing its most damaging impacts, graduate students affiliated with the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change are hard at work exploring some of the challenges and possible solutions that...
Jan 31, 2018
Short-term variability and long-term change in climate pose a challenge to water planners. Some climate uncertainties can be reduced over time as new information is collected, while others are irreducible. This presentation shows how flexible water-supply infrastructure planning can help...
News Release
MIT News | Jan 29, 2018
Panel at MIT explores benefits, costs and political challenges
Many economists across the political spectrum agree that carbon pricing could provide a cost-effective strategy to accelerate a transition to a low-carbon economy and reduce carbon emissions that play a key role in global climate change. Drawing on their research, legislators in several states...
News Release
Jan 25, 2018
Joint Program researcher assesses the threat and how Cambridge can prepare
Hunkered down at 11 tables at Harvard Law School on January 17, more than 100 business, sustainability and emergency-management professionals spent three hours simulating how they might coordinate a response in the aftermath of a major hurricane in the City of Cambridge.
News Brief
Jan 25, 2018
Paper advances adaptive urban water-supply planning approach
MIT Joint Program-affiliated researcher and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) PhD student Sarah Fletcher has won a 2017 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Outstanding Student Paper Award for her paper, “Urban water supply infrastructure planning under predictive groundwater...
News Release
Michigan Tech | Jan 23, 2018
MIT Joint Program-affiliated researchers Noelle Selin and Amanda Giang contribute to multidisciplinary study of regulatory impacts on Great Lakes mercury
By Allison Mills | Published 10:00 AM, January 23, 2018
A transdisciplinary team examined regulatory impacts on Great Lakes mercury, focusing on an Upper Peninsula tribal community with high fish consumption.
Around Campus
MIT News | Jan 22, 2018
MIT Professor Kerry Emanuel explains the science behind climate change, as well as the associated risks and how to quantify them
Lauren Hinkel | Oceans at MIT January 22, 2018
Around Campus
MIT News | Jan 22, 2018
Professor of atmospheric chemistry honored for her contributions to atmospheric science
Helen Hill | EAPS January 19, 2018
Susan Solomon, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies at MIT, has been awarded the 2018 Crafoord Prize.
Announced today, Solomon is being honored "for fundamental contributions to understanding the role of atmospheric...
Jan 19, 2018
This session explores the costs and competitiveness of various energy-generation technologies (including fossil fuels, renewables, nuclear and newer technologies) in a low-carbon future, and gives participants tools to analyze other technologies. Topics for discussion include intermittency,...
Jan 18, 2018
Local governments are uniquely positioned to curb greenhouse gas emissions. This discussion reviews policies and programs in energy efficiency and their important role in mitigating climate change.