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Plans are in place to meet or exceed greenhouse gas reduction targets
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office November 21, 2017
MIT has been forging ahead on strategies to implement the Institute’s Plan for Action on Climate Change, which was adopted in 2015. Two years after the plan was released, the Office of Sustainability and the Department of Facilities...
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As nations gathered in Bonn, Germany, for this year’s UN climate summit, one item on their agenda was determining whether pledged climate efforts are sufficient to achieve the targets of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Researchers at MIT have been working with the Mexican government to explore policy...
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As it builds the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, one of the two main tributaries of the Nile River, Ethiopia looks forward to producing a significant amount of hydropower, which could boost regional energy security and job creation. At the same time, there’s concern that...
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On November 6-7, the 2017 MIT Water Summit convened experts from industry, academia, government and NGOs to examine critical issues at the food-water nexus. Presenters focused on the role of water in food production and how innovation, policy and technology can help communities to become more...
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On November 6-7, the 2017 MIT Water Summit convened experts from industry, academia, government and NGOs to examine critical issues at the food-water nexus. Presenters focused on the role of water in food production and how innovation, policy and technology can help communities to become more...
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Study finds state’s annual risk of extreme rainfall will rise from 1 to 18 percent
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office November 13, 2017
As the city of Houston continues to recover and rebuild following the historic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Harvey, the region will also have to prepare for a future in which storms of Harvey’s magnitude are more likely to occur.
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Susan Solomon's John H. Carlson Lecture examines past environmental challenges in the context of today's fight against climate change
Helen Hill | EAPS November 9, 2017
The headlines are full of bad news about the environment, but Susan Solomon, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies at MIT, thinks it’s important to celebrate and learn from past successes as we think about today's environmental...
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US News & World Report: MIT Joint Program co-founder Henry Jacoby expresses concern about the transparency of emissions reporting among signatories of the Paris Agreement.
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — How's this for awkward? The United States has a delegation at international climate talks in Bonn that will be telling other nations what they should do on an agreement that the president wants no part of.
President Donald...
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Research, education, and student activities help create a robust community focused on fueling the world's future
Kathryn M. O'Neill | MIT Energy Initiative November 7, 2017
On any given day at MIT, undergraduates design hydro-powered desalination systems, graduate students test alternative fuels, and professors work to tap the huge energy-generating potential of nuclear fusion, biomaterials, and...