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MIT News | Apr 18, 2019
New method identifies opportunities to learn and adapt to changing temperature and precipitation trends
In Kenya’s second largest city, Mombasa, the demand for water is expected to double by 2035 to an estimated 300,000 cubic meters per day. In Mombasa’s current warm and humid climate, that water comes from a substantial volume of precipitation that may also change significantly as the region...
News Release
Apr 18, 2019
Study shows how Brazil could meet Paris climate goals at minimum cost
As the largest economy in Latin America and the seventh largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions—primarily from agriculture (32%), land-use change and deforestation (28%) and fossil fuel consumption (27.7%)—Brazil plays a key role in global climate negotiations.
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Global Changes - Spring 2019 Newsletter | Apr 18, 2019
Insights, news, projects, publications and other developments at the MIT Joint Program
Growing demands on natural resources underscore need for risk assessment and response
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MIT News | Apr 11, 2019
In MIT talk, Lord Nicholas Stern calls the next 20 years “absolutely defining” for society
Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office April 11, 2019
Prominent economist and policymaker Lord Nicholas Stern delivered a strong warning about the dangers of climate change in a talk at MIT on Tuesday, calling the near future “defining” and urging a rapid overhaul of the economy to reach net...
News Release
Apr 10, 2019
Key takeaways from the XLII (42nd) MIT Global Change Forum
The pace of global change poses multiple risks to communities and ecosystems, but also presents unprecedented opportunities to address those risks and cultivate a more resilient and prosperous future.
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Scientific Computing World | Apr 03, 2019
Joint Program extreme-weather-event modeling method featured in Scientific Computing World article on weather prediction
In The News
Washington Post | Mar 26, 2019
Climate policies around the globe remain woefully inadequate, says MIT CEEPR Deputy Director Michael Mehling (Washington Post)
“We are headed for disaster, and nobody seems to be able to slow things down,” a Stanford University professor said.
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MIT News | Mar 20, 2019
Maike Sonnewald adapts a method that identifies areas of the global ocean with similar physics, revealing global dynamical regimes
Kelsey Tsipis | EAPS March 20, 2019
Oceanographers studying the physics of the global ocean have long found themselves facing a conundrum: Fluid dynamical balances can vary greatly from point to point, rendering it difficult to make global generalizations.
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Technology Review | Mar 19, 2019
Susan Solomon’s research pinpointed how CFCs caused the Antarctic ozone hole—and later showed that the Montreal Protocol is helping to mend it. She’s convinced we can make progress on addressing climate change, too. (Technology Review)
by Amanda Schaffer
February 27, 2019
News Brief
Mar 11, 2019
Studies advance natural resource risk assessment, economic modeling and infrastructure resilience
MIT Joint Program researchers have recently won awards and honors for two peer-reviewed journal papers, a Joint Program Report and a PhD thesis.