Climate Policy

What’s the science behind climate change, and how can we combat a warming climate? Those are complex questions that MIT faculty are actively pursuing. In this podcast, four MIT professors— Dan Cziczo, Kerry Emanuel, Christopher Knittel, and Andrew Whittle—will discuss their climate research on areas including hurricane activity, coastal flooding, carbon dioxide, and economic policy.

PODCAST: What’s the Science Behind Climate Change?

For the 2015 Karl Taylor Compton Lecture, MIT welcomes Professor Mario J. Molina, co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and former Institute Professor.

Climate Change: Science, Policy and Communication

Henry "Jake" Jacoby Raises Climate Change Concerns at UNU-WIDER Conference.

Launching a New Climate Regime

Leading climate economists discuss prospects for a successful outcome to the COP21 meeting.

The Paris Climate Summit: Prospects for a Global Agreement

Professors Henry Jacoby and Valerie Karplus (MIT Sloan School of Management) and their collaborator, professor Xiliang Zhang (Tsinghua University; MIT-Tsinghua China Energy & Climate Project) speak at this event. Addressing an audience of COP21 attendees, MIT alumni, current students, and others, they discussed how China’s actions coming out of COP21 could help shape the future global energy system.

Paris and Beyond: Climate Change and the Future of Energy

Professors Jake Jacoby, Valerie Karplus, Tom Malone, and John Sterman discussed their COP21 experiences on a panel moderated by MITEI Deputy Director Rob Stoner.

MITEI Lunch and Learn on the United Nations Climate Change Conference—COP 21

At the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris in December 2015, 195 countries adopted the first legally binding global climate deal. A key point of discussion was the issue of responsibility. This press conference presents new research assessing the extent to which some developed and developing nations are to blame for climate change, from emissions to temperature increase contributions. This media briefing will also shed light on what the Paris agreement, and its global mean temperature limits of 2°C and 1.5°C, means for the Earth system, from glacier mass change to sea-level rise.

Historical Responsibilities and Climate Impacts of the Paris Agreement

Janos Pasztor, Senior Advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General on Climate Change, describes the U.N.’s Action Agenda from its origins to its emergence at COP21 to its next steps.

The Action Agenda - A Collaborative Approach to Addressing Climate Change

This project is producing a strategy for a global observing system for verifying national claims of greenhouse gas emissions. The strategy will define the requirements of a system that would yield top-down emission estimates simultaneously consistent with all reliable observations, relevant theoretical models of natural oceanic, atmospheric and terrestrial processes, and data on economies and trade flows involved in these emissions.

A Strategy for a Global Observing System for Verification of National Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is leading a study of renewable electricity futures for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and has enlisted the MIT Global Change Program for analytical support. In addition to the MIT component of the effort, the NREL study involves a set of subject matter experts as well as a broad set of stakeholders including financiers, utilities, system integrators, and equipment manufacturers.

Analytic Support for NREL's Renewable Electricity Futures Study

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