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MIT News | Aug 02, 2016

John Fernández ’85, MIT professor and recently-named director of the Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI): “I have always been most excited by creating an environment where there are no boundaries between disciplines.

John Fernández ’85 is not interested in overleaping boundaries so much as erasing them. The MIT professor, who was recently named director of the Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), started out as a child who loved math and...
News Release
Jul 28, 2016
Linking emissions trading systems in developed and developing countries could yield environmental, economic benefits

Recognizing the substantial costs involved in addressing climate change through both mitigation and adaptation measures, the Paris Agreement stipulates that developed countries provide at least $100 billion a year in climate financing to developing countries, and support their transition to...

Around Campus
MIT News | Jul 26, 2016
Climate change is a global problem — but its solution relies on national, regional, and local policy actions.
In The News • China Energy & Climate Project
chinadialogue | Jul 25, 2016

Faster electricity market reform is needed to harness more wind and speed up a shift from coal, two experts tell chinadialogue

China has roughly one third of global installed wind energy capacity, while the US has 17%. Yet China uses less wind-powered electricity than the US. What is going wrong?
In The News
MIT News | Jul 22, 2016

MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society research from the Technology and Policy Program highlights multidisciplinary approaches to data-driven policies

Major challenges across all of the domains addressed by MIT's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) incorporate fundamentally intertwined elements of...
In The News
National Geographic | Jul 20, 2016
As Super Typhoon Nepartak hits Taiwan and China, National Geographic asks tropical cyclone expert Kerry Emanuel how these tempests form, and what risk they pose to people.
Around Campus
MIT News | Jul 20, 2016
This spring, a five-day MIT Professional Education course — Agriculture, Innovation and the Environment — showcased innovative technologies and strategies to make the agriculture industry more productive, and attracted a score of professionals from all over the world.  
News Release
Jul 15, 2016
Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev presents keynote talk at EcoMod 2016

On July 6, MIT Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev was a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Economic Modeling, EcoMod 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal. EcoMod is the world’s leading research, advisory and educational nonprofit network focused on promoting advanced modeling and...

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The Straits Times | Jul 11, 2016

A new study in Journal of Climate shows that burning coal could result in less rainfall and raise water stress in some countries - especially in developing Asia.

The warming effects of burning coal are well known, and studies have shown that using the dirtiest fossil fuel around can cause cooling, too. This is not good news, though. A new study, by Singapore scientists, shows that the cooling could result in less rainfall and raise water stress in some...
News Release
Jul 07, 2016
New approach tracks key factors affecting crop yields, enabling early adaptation

To assess the likely impact of climate change on U.S. agriculture, researchers typically run a combination of climate and crop models that project how yields of maize, wheat and other key crops will change over time. But the suite of models commonly used in these simulations, which account for a...

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