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Nov 23, 2016
Accounting for year-to-year variability enables more accurate projections of climate change and its impacts
In The News • China Energy & Climate Project
MIT Energy Initiative | Nov 22, 2016
PhD candidate Michael Davidson gathers information at COP22 for his research on renewable energy and climate change policies in China
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MIT News | Nov 22, 2016
At UN Climate Change Conference, MIT researchers share insights on implementing climate commitments
Last year, participants in the Paris Agreement on climate change expressed the shared global objective of limiting temperature rise, with each party to the agreement laying out its intended national contributions to addressing climate change. At this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP22)...
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MIT News | Nov 22, 2016
Why it so hard for human beings to address climate change? What can motivate effective action?
The ethical challenges presented by climate change and the question of what individuals — and academic institutions like MIT — can do to affect change drew approximately 250 people to Morss Hall at MIT on Thursday, Nov. 17 for an MIT-wide forum titled “Climate Change: Ethics in Action.”
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CleanTechnica | Nov 21, 2016
MIT: Emissions Trading for Transport = EU’s Cheapest Means of Reducing Transport Emissions; EU officials reportedly receptive to Joint Program study’s findings
“Rather than adopting an approach similar to the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard in the United States, the European Union could achieve similar carbon dioxide emissions reductions simply by extending the existing emissions trading system to encompass transportation (in addition to...
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MIT News | Nov 17, 2016
Tata Center graduate fellow Arun Singh shares energy-economic modeling research at UN Climate Change Conference
News Release
Nov 16, 2016
How an enhanced cap-and-trade system can help the world’s top carbon emitter cut emissions and improve air quality
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MIT News | Nov 15, 2016
Richard Alley delivers 2016 Carlson Lecture on the physics of glaciers and how ice sheets capture a history of the world’s climate
Two miles thick and a continent wide, piles of snow have been accumulating across the world’s polar regions over millennia. After cycles of melting and freezing, compressing and spreading under their own weight, packed snow formed magnificent glaciers. These majestic, yet powerful, bodies of ice...
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The Verge | Nov 14, 2016
Sea levels are rising, but he’s trying to bring coal back
Trump’s presidency could mean a resurgence of coal, a hollowing out of climate policy, and a shift away from clean energy innovation. MIT Earth and Planetary Sciences Professor Kerry Emanuel warns that the consequences could include major negative health effects; increased food and water shortages...
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MIT News | Nov 08, 2016
Emissions trading would be more effective than mileage standards, new study shows
As the European Union contemplates new policies aimed at meeting its emissions-reduction commitments under last year’s Paris Agreement on climate change, a new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere could provide some valuable guidance on the most effective strategy.