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The Clean Investment Monitor database, a new collaboration between MIT CEEPR and the Rhodium Group, shows $213 billion in clean technology and infrastructure investments in the last year (MIT News) (Coverage: New York Times)
Investments in new technologies and infrastucture that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions — everything from electric vehicles to heat pumps — are growing rapidly in the United States. Now, a new database enables these investments to be comprehensively monitored in real-time, thereby helping to...
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Today's battery electric vehicles are cheaper than hydrogen-powered ones, and they also need less new infrastructure (MIT Climate Portal)
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Former MIT EAPS PhD student Jimmy Gasore developed Africa's only AGAGE atmospheric gases monitoring station (The New Times)
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Studies show an emerging divide between younger and older Republicans that could help shift the party's stance on climate policy (The Hill)
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Santiago, 23 August 2023 – Airbus and LATAM Airlines Group have funded a study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (MIT Joint Program).
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After a summer of weather extremes, where does the world stand in its goal to stem rising temps? (MIT News)
The summer of 2023 has been a season of weather extremes.
In June, uncontrolled wildfires ripped through parts of Canada, sending smoke into the U.S. and setting off air quality alerts in dozens of downwind states. In July, the world set the hottest global temperature on record, which it...
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MIT Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev identifies opportunities to make EVs more sustainable (Mongabay)
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Internal combustion vs. EVs: Learning from the past to boost sustainabilityby Sean Mowbray on 9 August 2023
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A study shows that while air quality gains from carbon policies are widespread, some regions could see pollution increases (Nature Sustainability)
Climate policies trade-offs
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The latest United Nations IPCC Report projects that every increment of global warming—now 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and rising—will intensify local impacts of climate change, from drought to wildfires to flooding.
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In the hunt for minerals needed in electric car batteries, some companies are turning to the deep sea. But mining this ecosystem could threaten its very existence. (Live Science)