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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’...
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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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MIT News | Oct 31, 2014
The Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment tracks global emissions and atmospheric data, but lacks data on Africa. Jimmy Gasore, 4th-year MIT graduate student, is trying to change that.
by Zach Wener-Fligner, MIT News correspondent
All around the planet, high-frequency climate observatories are collecting atmospheric data around the clock as part of the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE), a 35-year-old project to study emissions and climate change.
But there’s...
Recent Event
Oct 21, 2014
On Friday, October 17, 2014, CECP team participated in the MIT Energy Night at the MIT Museum between 6:00-9:00pm.
The MIT Energy Night provides an ideal opportunity to see what energy at MIT is all about and the CECP team presented two posters and interacted with hundreds of MIT students,...
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World Meteorological Association | Oct 20, 2014
Learn how MIT researchers account for different sources of uncertainty in climate modeling, and what they're doing to reduce it.
Audrey Resutek and Erwan Monier
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeWorld Meteorological Organization Bulletin, October 17, 2014
The US National Climate...
3 Questions
Link to Article | Oct 20, 2014
New committee aims to catalyze community discussion on how MIT can help address climate change.
MIT News Office
On Sept. 19, Maria T. Zuber, MIT’s vice president for research, announced the membership of a community committee to plan and implement the MIT Climate Change Conversation. As Zuber noted, “The Committee should seek broad input from the Institute community on how the US and the...
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Link to Article | Oct 10, 2014
Geologist and 2014 Crafoord Prize-winner will deliver the 4th annual John Carlson Lecture."
Helen Hill (EAPS)
MIT News
October 10, 2014
Peter Hale Molnar, professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences in Boulder, Colo., presents the...
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Link to Article | Oct 02, 2014
John Reily, codirector of the MIT Joint Program, talks with Climate Central about the 2014 Climate and Energy Outlook's findings on global water stress.
Bobby Magill
Climate Central
Water stress — the general scarcity of freshwater for people who need it — is considered by many scientists as one of the biggest challenges facing humanity and struggling ecosystems in a world increasingly affected by climate change.
Studies differ on how much the...
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BusinessGreen.com | Oct 01, 2014
BusinessGreen -- Latest Energy and Climate Outlook predicts world on track for temperature increases of 3.3C to 5.6C this century, presenting huge challenge to global economy
by BusinessGreen staff
MIT has added its voice to the cacophony of scientific institutions presenting warnings on the true scale of projected climate impacts, with the publication of a new report arguing we are currently on track to far exceed the 2C temperature goal set by the international...