News + Media
Dec 29, 2014
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.
Dec 29, 2014
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...
In The News • China Energy & Climate Project
Link to Article | Dec 10, 2014
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.
by Jesse Jenkins | The Energy Collective
Jesse Jenkins: Even before world leaders descended on Lima, Peru this week for United Nations-sponsored climate negotiations, climate diplomacy made global headlines with the joint announcement of a partnership between the world's two largest carbon emitters...
Student Spotlight
Dec 08, 2014
“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.
Researcher Highlight
Dec 05, 2014
“Looking back, my interest in China developed out of spending a lot of time around people who were really passionate about the possibilities for their country,” Karplus says. “Working with colleagues in China over all of these years, I feel like the country has become a part of my own story.” ...
In The News
Link to Article | Dec 03, 2014
Study shows that the effects of smaller eruptions have been underestimated in climate models.
by David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
New research shows that relatively small volcanic eruptions can increase aerosol particles in the atmosphere, temporarily mitigating the global warming caused by greenhouse gases. The impact of such smaller eruptions has been underestimated in climate models,...
3 Questions
MIT News | Dec 02, 2014
MIT researcher Sergey Paltsev discusses the outlook for LNG trading over the next several decades.
Until recently, most natural gas trade has been limited to the regional scale due to the challenges of transporting gas over long distances. Over the last decade, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)—an option that reduces the volume of gas about 600 times allowing for transportation by ship—has created an...
In The News • China Energy & Climate Project
MIT Technology Review | Nov 18, 2014
MIT China Energy and Climate Program Director Valerie Karplus talks with MIT’s Tech Review about when China’s emissions might peak.
By Mike Orcutt | MIT Technology Review
China may put a stop to growing carbon dioxide emissions earlier than expected, but how quickly they start coming down is also important.
In an agreement announced last week, China and the United States, which together account for some 45 percent of the globe’...
In The News
Link to Article | Nov 13, 2014
MIT News interviews Chris Knittel, who co-authored a new article in Science evaluating government's proposed emissions policy for power plants.
By Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office
With cap-and-trade legislation on greenhouse-gas emissions having stalled in Congress in 2010, the Obama administration has taken a different approach to climate policy: It has used the mandate of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to propose a policy...
In The News • China Energy & Climate Project
Washington Post | Nov 12, 2014
In this column for the Washington Post Wonk Blog, Michael Levi describes the significance of U.S.-China climate agreement, and research that may have influenced the agreement
In this column for the Washington Post Wonk Blog, Michael Levi, senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foriegn Relations, describes the significance of U.S.-China climate agreement, and research that may have influenced the agreement.
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