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Nov 24, 2020
Former Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly quoted in new report from Capgemini Research Institute
Former MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly is quoted on page 23 of "Climate AI: How artificial intelligence can power your climate action strategy," a new report from the Capgemini Research Institute:
News Release
Nov 23, 2020
ILP-MIT Joint Program webinar explores climate-related physical and transition risks
Many world regions face increasing pressures from global and regional changes in climate, population growth, urban-area expansion, and the socio-economic impacts of fossil-based development. Human interference in the global climate system contributes significantly to changes in regional and...
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MIT News | Nov 20, 2020
Policymakers are hopeful that a Biden administration will encourage congressional action
To stave off the worst immediate outcomes of climate change, the U.S. needs to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to a report released this June by the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.
In The News
MIT Spectrum | Nov 16, 2020
Noelle Selin explores toxin’s history, works to change policy (MIT Spectrum)
BACK BEFORE THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, before Covid-19 gripped the globe and our bodies, back when you could easily take an airplane to a remote destination for vacation, Noelle Selin did just that.
News Release
MIT News | Nov 05, 2020
Carbon capture and storage key to achieving climate goals
Aiming to avoid the worst effects of climate change, from severe droughts to extreme coastal flooding, the nearly 200 nations that signed the Paris Agreement set a long-term goal of keeping global warming well below two degrees Celsius. Achieving that goal will require dramatic reductions in...
News Release
Nov 04, 2020
XLIII (43rd) MIT Global Change Forum highlights opportunities for science-based decision-making
We live at a time of increasing physical risk—exposure to detrimental climate change and/or weather extremes—as well as transition risk—particularly the financial impacts of fossil fuel assets losing their value in the needed rapid transition to a low-carbon economy aimed at stabilizing the...
Commentary
Yale Climate Connections | Nov 01, 2020
Concurrent extreme climate events can amount to a challenging 'two-fer' or even a 'three-fer' in terms of adverse impacts (Yale Climate Connections)
Wildfires in California, Oregon, and Washington are this year’s poster children for extreme natural disasters. Hardly a day passed in August and September without disturbing pictures of heart-wrenching damages and loss of life.
Commentary
Yale Climate Connections | Nov 01, 2020
Lessons from coronavirus inform and enhance our understanding of needed next steps on climate change crisis (Yale Climate Connections)
Let’s again explore why responding to climate change is so urgent, this time drawing lessons gleaned from our experiences with the novel coronavirus. And let’s take advantage of some of the increasingly obvious parallels between how both climate change and COVID-19 threaten society.
In The News
Environmental Solutions Initiative | Oct 29, 2020
What it will take to achieve long-term climate goals (TILclimate)
Is it too late to prevent climate change? Are the scary predictions that we hear about inevitable? In this episode of TILclimate (Today I Learned Climate), MIT Prof. Noelle Selin joins host Laur Hesse Fisher to answer these questions. They explore what change is predictable, explain what climate...
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MIT News | Oct 24, 2020
An online symposium explores roles for research universities and outlines the Institute’s efforts to be a testbed for research and policy innovations
Becky Ham | MIT News Office
Publication Date:
October 23, 2020
Under its Plan for Action on Climate Change, MIT has a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 32 percent below its 2014 emission levels, by 2030. Those reductions are now at 24 percent, and the...