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Oct 07, 2015
How Much Can They Deliver and at What Cost?
Around Campus
MIT News | Oct 07, 2015
Solar panel system wins $10,000 prize for technology that makes energy and water more accessible in the developing world
Vicki Ekstrom | Laur Fisher | MIT Climate CoLab
Solar panel system wins $10,000 prize for technology that makes energy and water more accessible in the developing world
An MIT initiative is using the global crowd to help solve climate change. And with the United Nations’ climate agreement ...
News Release
Sep 29, 2015
How manmade aerosols can alter rainfall in the world’s most populous region
Commentary • China Energy & Climate Project
ChinaFAQs | Sep 29, 2015
In ChinaFAQs column, Valerie Karplus assesses joint statement on emissions reductions
The latest Obama-Xi announcement sends a strong message: the two nations are acting fast to enable a global low carbon transition. Friday’s joint announcement is an...
Commentary
NY Times | Sep 29, 2015
MIT researchers explain how technical analysis can avoid potential conflict.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — On the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, construction is underway on a public works project of gigantic physical proportions and exquisite political delicacy. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, now about halfway finished, amounts to a test: With water becoming precious enough to be the...
In The News • China Energy & Climate Project
Link to Article | Sep 21, 2015
On eve of summit with President Obama, see Valerie Karplus in Columbia University panel discussion on meeting China's climate goals today at 12:30-2:00 pm.
On the eve of President Xi's visit to the US and summit with President Obama, Professor Karplus participated in the panel discussion on Meeting China’s Climate Goals at Columbia University today, September 21, 2015, at 12:30-2:00 p.m. David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy...
News Brief
MIT News | Sep 17, 2015
Proposal takes aim at Rwanda's air pollution
Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Climate CoLab, an MIT-based crowdsourcing platform to advance climate change solutions through the power of collective intelligence, has named Langley DeWitt, a...
Around Campus
MIT News | Sep 11, 2015
Study: Pattern of winners and losers explains U.S. policy on fuel subsidies.
Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office
The politics of climate change are often depicted as a simple battle, between environmentalists and particular industries, over government policy. That’s not wrong, but it’s only a rough sketch of the matter. Now a paper co-authored by MIT economist Christopher...
Around Campus
MIT News | Sep 08, 2015
A new study describes how irrigation development modifies local and regional climate.
Kelsey Damrad | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
With approximately 70 percent of all freshwater consumption worldwide used for agriculture, the reliance on large-scale irrigation development continues to spread and ultimately augments crop yields in many regions.
But the ongoing...
News Release
MIT News | Aug 31, 2015
Mark Dwortzan
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
MIT researchers find unintended consequences
Like the leaves of New England maples, phytoplankton, the microalgae at the base of most oceanic food webs, photosynthesize when exposed to sunlight. In the process, they absorb...