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To understand big problems—like the challenges facing China’s electricity grid—you have to ask big questions.
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Anna Petherick writes for Nature Climate Change about emissions pledges from the United States and China for, including emissions projections from China Energy and Climate Project.
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MIT study evaluates the impacts of a large-scale bioenergy ramp-up.
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Entekhabi has spent his career learning about the Earth through collecting data, and the information collected by his new NASA Earth monitor will fill a major gap in our understanding.
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Graduate Student and Rwandan native Jimmy Gasore and Research Scientist Kat Potter are working to establish Africa’s first climate observatory. In this video, they talk with MIT’s Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences group about the project.
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Ronald G. Prinn, the TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, Director of the Center for Global Change Science and Codirector of the Joint Program on Science and Policy of Global Change at MIT, talks with MIT’s Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences group about the Rwandan Climate...
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The announcement of a joint pledge to cut emissions between the world's two largest carbon emitters: the United States and China, made global headlines when it was announced in November. In this interview, Valerie Karplus, an asssistant professor in MIT's Sloan School of Managment, discusses the details of the deal.
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“The challenge is, how can we create enough energy to support so many people in a sustainable way?” For Zhang, part of the solution is renewable energy.