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Report cites paper co-authored by MIT Joint Program researchers on climate effects on U.S. infrastructure (White House Council of Economic Advisors)
IEc’s work was recently cited by the White House Council of Economic Advisors in the 2023 Economic Report of the President. The report is released annually and addresses a list of standard topics (overall economic growth, the year in review, and the definitive source for retrospective GDP and...
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Finding ‘hotspots’ where compounding risks converge
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![The Climate Action Through Education (CATE) program is rolling out in pilot form this year in more than a dozen Massachusetts high schools, and eventually in high schools across the United States. Clockwise from left: Eyoel Kahssay, Kenny Eliason, Abbie Trayler-Smith, and Mark König K-CATE_illustration_WEB.jpg](https://globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/490x340_manual/public/in-the-news/K-CATE_illustration_WEB.jpg?itok=8CYnAAfo)
A multidisciplinary climate change curriculum for high schools, developed at MIT, aims to engage and mobilize teachers and students (MIT Energy Initiative)
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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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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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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...
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Episode explores technological innovations needed by 2050 to keep global climate targets in play