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MIT: Emissions Trading for Transport = EU’s Cheapest Means of Reducing Transport Emissions; EU officials reportedly receptive to Joint Program study’s findings
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How an enhanced cap-and-trade system can help the world’s top carbon emitter cut emissions and improve air quality
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Richard Alley delivers 2016 Carlson Lecture on the physics of glaciers and how ice sheets capture a history of the world’s climate
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Sea levels are rising, but he’s trying to bring coal back
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Emissions trading would be more effective than mileage standards, new study shows
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How a shift from fossil fuels to low-carbon technologies could alter today’s balance of power
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MIT’s vice president for research discusses the challenges ahead for MIT and the world
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Overreliance on negative emissions as solution could prevent global climate stabilization
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Two decades after the genocide in Rwanda, the country is harnessing science and technology to rebuild its economy