Climate Policy

Nuclear power Is COP26's quiet controversy

Portable Chargers Could Accelerate Electric Vehicle Adoption

In 2018, Cape Town, South Africa’s second most populous city, came very close to running out of water as the multi-year “Day Zero” drought depleted its reservoirs. Since then, researchers from Stanford University determined that climate change had made this extreme drought five to six times more likely, and warned that a lot more Day Zero events could occur in regions with similar climates in the future.

Scientists project increased risk to water supplies in South Africa this century due to rising temperatures and declining rainfall

MIT collaborates with Biogen on three-year, $7 million initiative to address climate, health and equity

For companies to address climate change, an 'action plan' is needed

Existing climate targets neither consider nor identify the impact of successful pathways that also achieve an environment that supports and protects human health. In addition, we have limited knowledge of the landscape of various health risk drivers. This projects aims to assess the relative impact on health (of humans and nature) of global progress towards global temperature targets. Ultimately, these targets with be illustrated with analysis and visualization platforms of the health impacts across the nexus of nature’s resources (i.e. air, water, energy, land) and infrastructure.

The Impact of Climate Change on Global Health

The preeminent conference for the advancement of Earth and space sciences, the AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting draws more than 25,000 attendees from over 100 countries each year to share research findings and identify innovative solutions to complex problems. Organized around the theme “Science is Society,” this year’s AGU Fall Meeting will take place in New Orleans and online on December 13 - 17.

AGU Fall Meeting goes hybrid for 2021