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Recent Event • China Energy & Climate Project
MIT News | Nov 26, 2013
By Alli Gold Roberts
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
The MIT-Tsinghua China Energy and Climate Project and Emory University held a workshop on Thursday November 21st with researchers and government officials to discuss new research analyzing the impacts of China’s...
Commentary • China Energy & Climate Project
The Energy Collective | Nov 26, 2013
Update 7:30pm, Saturday, November 23
Decisions have been adopted on the three major elements of COP19: Durban Platform, Loss and Damage, and institutional mechanisms for finance.
Update 4:11pm, Saturday, November 23
The decision of the Durban Platform was adopted and the plenary to finalize other...
Nov 21, 2013
John Reilly delivers a lecture during the Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI) Conference, "Uncertainty in Climate Change: A Conversation with Climate Scientists and Economists".
News Release
MIT News | Nov 20, 2013
By Vicki Ekstrom
Read the 2013 Energy and Climate Outlook
As international negotiators discuss global efforts to confront climate change at the 19th United Nation’s Conference of Parties (COP19), a group of...
Nov 19, 2013
John Reilly presents at the League of Women Voters event on the role of the free market in solving the climate crisis.
Commentary • China Energy & Climate Project
The Energy Collective | Nov 18, 2013
We are heading into the second week of UN climate negotiations in Warsaw (refered to as COP 19), where 194 countries are busy laying the groundwork for an international treaty hopefully to be concluded by 2015. Created under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),...
In The News
MIT News | Nov 15, 2013
Watch video from the conference here: www.climatecolab.org/conference2013/virtually
As international climate negotiators meet this month for the 19th meeting of the UN Conference of Parties (COP19), there’s an increasing...
In The News
MIT News | Nov 15, 2013
In deciding how best to meet the world’s growing needs for energy, the answers depend crucially on how the question is framed. Looking for the most cost-effective path provides one set of answers; including the need to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions gives a different picture. Adding the need to...
News Release
MIT News | Nov 14, 2013
Global population is expected to rise from about 7 billion today to close to 11 billion by the end of the century. This growing population will increase the demand for food, putting further strain on global land and water resources already feeling the pressures of climate change. Responding to the...
In The News
Cargill | Nov 13, 2013
MIT students and faculty interested in climate change’s impact on agriculture and food production gathered on the University’s campus Tuesday to hear a half-day of dialogue in a Food Symposium sponsored by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. In his keynote address,...