News + Media
Jan 01, 2017
The European Union could meet its climate goals and save billions of Euro by extending its emissions trading system to include the private transportation sector.
Researcher Highlight
Dec 27, 2016
C. Adam Schlosser assesses long-term risks to regional water and energy systems
Last spring Joint Program Deputy Director and Senior Research Scientist C. Adam Schlosser and colleagues published a paper in the journal PLOS One that projected a “high risk of severe water stress” in much of Asia by midcentury.
Student Spotlight
Dec 27, 2016
IDSS PhD student Paul Kishimoto probes the future of transportation in China
“What we’re trying to do is to use data sources and methods that other people have not used, and that are more flexible and sophisticated, to do this estimation,” says Kishimoto, who is pursuing this research in preparation for his PhD thesis.
In The News
Climate Central | Dec 20, 2016
Regulatory loophole allows wood energy to count as carbon neutral, when it’s often worse for the climate than burning coal. MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly comments.
Dec 18, 2016
Two veteran environmental economists at MIT, John Reilly (left) and Henry "Jake" Jacoby, briefly outline a couple of the most important, and least appreciated, facts about human-driven climate change. One is that the system has enormous inertia, preventing any quick fix. Another is that deep...
News Release
Dec 12, 2016
In 17 talks and posters, Joint Program researchers present global and regional analyses at the AGU’s annual fall meeting
Dec 09, 2016
Ron Prinn discusses his work on the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment with MIT's Industrial Liason Program.
In The News
BBC World Service | Dec 09, 2016
Donald Trump has chosen a climate change sceptic to head the US Environmental Protection Agency. MIT Joint Program Co-Director Emeritus Henry Jacoby comments on the policy implications in this BBC World Service radio clip.
News Release
Dec 07, 2016
New book chapter highlights the Joint Program’s approach to representing land use in global computable general equilibrium models
In The News
New York Times | Dec 02, 2016
Despite the title of the article, the author cautions that the world remains imperiled by greenhouse gas emissions associated with climate change, citing the MIT Joint Program’s 2015 Energy and Climate Outlook.