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Around Campus
MIT News | Sep 15, 2023

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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In The News
MIT Climate Portal | Sep 14, 2023

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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In The News
The New Times | Sep 13, 2023

Former MIT EAPS PhD student Jimmy Gasore developed Africa's only AGAGE atmospheric gases monitoring station (The New Times)

Kagame appoints atmospheric scientist Gasore as new Infrastructure Minister

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Commentary
The Hill | Sep 12, 2023

Studies show an emerging divide between younger and older Republicans that could help shift the party's stance on climate policy (The Hill)

Young Republicans want action on climate change — so why is the party ignoring them?

BY RICHARD RICHELS, HENRY JACOBY, BENJAMIN SANTER AND GARY YOHE, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS - 09/08/23 7:30 AM ET

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News Release
Aug 28, 2023
Airbus/LATAM press release describes study's purpose and objectives (Airbus/LATAM)

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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News Release
MIT News | Aug 27, 2023

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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In The News
Mongabay | Aug 09, 2023

MIT Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev identifies opportunities to make EVs more sustainable (Mongabay)

Mongabay Series: Covering the Commons, Planetary Boundaries

Internal combustion vs. EVs: Learning from the past to boost sustainability

by Sean Mowbray on 9 August 2023

 

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Commentary
Nature Sustainability | Aug 09, 2023

A study shows that while air quality gains from carbon policies are widespread, some regions could see pollution increases (Nature Sustainability)

News & Views Published: 18 May 2023

Climate policies trade-offs

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News Release
Jul 20, 2023
Study finds tradeoffs between policy costs and ensuring that global warming does not exceed 1.5°C

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 News
Live Science | Jul 17, 2023

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)

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