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MIT News | Dec 12, 2018
Scientists and engineers will collaborate in a new Climate Modeling Alliance to advance climate modeling and prediction
School of Science December 12, 2018
The following news article is adapted from a press release issued by Caltech, in partnership with the MIT School of Science, the Naval Postgraduate School, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Facing the certainty of a changing climate coupled...
Commentary
World Resources Institute | Dec 11, 2018
That's what's needed in order for the Paris Agreement to succeed, argues Joint Program Founding Co-Director Henry D. Jacoby (World Resources Institute)
Anchoring Long-Term Strategy in Near-Term Action
News Release
MIT News | Dec 10, 2018
Two new MIT reports advance practical emissions-reduction strategies for Southeast Asia and Latin America at both the regional and country level
Now convening in Katowice, Poland, amid dire warnings from the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius and the National Climate Assessment about the pace of climate change and severity of its impacts, the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework...
News Release
Global Changes: Fall 2018 | Dec 07, 2018
The biannual newsletter of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
In The News
Associated Press | Dec 06, 2018
Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly comments in Associated Press news story
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The Associated PressPosted: Dec 05, 2018 01:58 PM EST
Updated: Dec 05, 2018 01:58 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — After several years of little growth, global emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide experienced their largest jump in seven years, discouraging scientists.
Commentary
The Conversation | Dec 04, 2018
Meeting the Paris 2°C goal requires a dramatic turnaround in emissions in the very near future, argue Joint Program researchers Henry Jacoby and Jennifer Morris in The Conversation
A mounting sense of urgency will greet negotiators as they arrive at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland. In 2015, after 20 years of trying and failing to reach a global accord on climate-changing emissions, 195 nations hammered out a deal, the Paris Agreement, that...
In The News
Wired | Nov 30, 2018
Noelle Selin comments on mercury pollution and its adverse impacts (Wired)
SOPHIA CHEN
LAST WEEK, DIPLOMATS from over 150 countries flew to Geneva to discuss how to reduce human-made emissions. No, not that kind. These suits want to cut mercury pollution.
Nov 28, 2018
Figures from the MIT Joint Program 2018 Food, Water, Energy & Climate Outlook.
Around Campus
MIT News | Nov 28, 2018
New generating plant, building retrofits, and progress in metering energy use represent ongoing gains
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office November 27, 2018
Despite a challenging year marked by a colder-than-usual winter and the construction of major new campus buildings, MIT has continued its progress toward its declared goal of reducing campus greenhouse gas emissions by 32 percent by...
News Release
MIT News | Nov 13, 2018
MIT Joint Program workshop explores risks and opportunities for the agriculture sector
When it comes to global change, agriculture cuts both ways. Subject to the vicissitudes of global climate change, population and economic growth, the cultivation of crops and livestock alters atmospheric concentrations of planet-warming greenhouse gases and also contributes to pollution of...