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MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative | Jul 20, 2020
Featuring MIT Energy Initiative Senior Engineer/ Joint Program Affiliate Howard Herzog
This season, we’ve talked about alternative energy sources that don’t emit carbon dioxide -- but what if there was a way to continue using fossil fuels for energy without emitting CO2 into the atmosphere? In this episode of TILclimate (Today I Learned Climate), Dr. Howard Herzog and Professor...
News Brief
Jul 13, 2020
MIT webinar features presentations by Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev and Founding Co-Director Emeritus Henry Jacoby.
The energy sector is facing unprecedented challenges, with the global Covid-19 pandemic complicating an already challenging transition toward a low-carbon future. One of the key elements in addressing both the current pandemic and climate change is with forward-looking collaborations in...
Commentary
Scientific American | Jul 10, 2020
With COVID-19, as with climate, we need to explore a variety of possible futures in order to set policy
Between us, we have more than a century of experience in climate research, literature assessment, and scholarly support for domestic and international efforts to respond to environmental challenges. We have learned the value of rigorous scientific research, even when it challenges conventional...
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MIT Sloan School of Management | Jul 10, 2020
Decrease in clean energy investment could exacerbate health crisis
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- While the COVID-19 pandemic has reduced air pollution in the U.S., the longer-term impact on the environment is unclear.
News Release
The World Bank | Jul 10, 2020
New World Bank book reviewed by MIT Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev presents climate strategies for fossil-fuel dependent countries
Countries’ attempts to tackle climate change will depend on their circumstances and capabilities. Among the most challenging, will be how fossil fuel–dependent countries (FFDCs) do so, given their economies are the
News Release
MIT News | Jun 30, 2020
How energy-intensive economies can survive and thrive as the globe ramps up climate action
Today Russia’s economy depends heavily upon its abundant fossil fuel resources. Russia is one of the world’s largest exporters of fossil fuels, and a number of its key exporting industries—including metals, chemicals and fertilizers—draw on fossil resources. The nation also consumes fossil fuels...
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MIT Industrial Liaison Program | Jun 18, 2020
MIT Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev helps decision-makers meet aggressive decarbonization goals (MIT Industrial Liaison Program)
The world has to decarbonize. “There is no question,” says Sergey Paltsev, deputy director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, senior research scientist at MIT Energy Initiative, and director of the Energy at Scale Center. What is currently debated...
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Petroleum Economist | Jun 18, 2020
The fuel may appear to be in terminal decline, but it remains the focus of Great Power competition, suggesting it is not dead yet (Petroleum Economist)
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MIT News | Jun 17, 2020
MIT analysis uncovers the basis of the severe rainfall declines predicted by many models
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office June 17, 2020
Although global climate models vary in many ways, they agree on this: The Mediterranean region will be significantly drier in coming decades, potentially seeing 40 percent less precipitation during the winter rainy season.
News Release
Jun 17, 2020
MIT Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev featured in Civic Series webinar
From transportation to farming to home heating to plastics, much of modern life is run on oil. But in April, when demand fell so sharply that the price of oil went negative for the first time in history, many wondered about the future of this ubiquitous commodity.