News and Outreach: Christopher Knittel

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

Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev and Research Scientist Jennifer Morris among MIT researchers sharing expertise

Decrease in clean energy investment could exacerbate health crisis

Climate change is a global threat, but solutions involve a superhuman level of sacrifice and awareness, says MIT Sloan’s Christopher Knittel

MIT symposium looks at the role of advances in storage, solar, nuclear, EVs and more in cutting greenhouse gas emissions

Technological innovations, policies, and behavioral changes will all be needed to reach Paris climate agreement targets (Coverage: WBUR, Technology Review, E&E News, Smart Cities Dive, Forbes)

There are five features that combine to make global warming a more vexing environmental crisis than any we have faced before (LA Times)

A $7 per metric ton carbon tax could reduce emissions by the same amount as the flagship climate policies of the Obama administration

CEEPR study makes extensive use of Joint Program's EPPA model (Axios) (Additional coverage: E&E News)

Even where the majority of the population favors climate action, carbon pricing is a tough sell, cautions MIT CEEPR Director Christopher Knittel (Scientific American)

In Wired, CEEPR Director/Joint Program affiliate Christopher Knittel comments on the benefits of carbon taxes and the challenges of implementing them

Findings suggest new policy models and cost-cutting technologies could help nuclear play vital role in climate solutions