News and Outreach: Henry Jacoby

The ‘carbon dividend’ is so elegant that it seems too good to be true. Governments should make it a post-pandemic priority

Lessons from coronavirus inform and enhance our understanding of needed next steps on climate change crisis (Yale Climate Connections)

Concurrent extreme climate events can amount to a challenging 'two-fer' or even a 'three-fer' in terms of adverse impacts (Yale Climate Connections)

Restoring its international standing on climate leadership is critical to the country's national interests and global stability (Yale Climate Connections)

The US is the first country to formally withdraw from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement (The Independent)

Website features accessible "Explainers" by MIT Joint Program researchers and other MIT climate experts

Journalists, moderators and the public have an important opportunity to question the presidential and vice presidential candidates in the upcoming TV debates

The potential dire consequences of manipulating the Social Cost of Carbon (The HIll) 

With COVID-19, as with climate, we need to explore a variety of possible futures in order to set policy

How climate change can increase the likelihood of a pandemic and amplify its toll on humans (The Hill)

Joint Program Founding Co-Director Emeritus Henry Jacoby and coauthors explore challenges and opportunities ahead (The Hill)