News and Outreach: John Reilly

A forthcoming book by MIT Joint Program sponsor representative David Hone,  Putting the Genie Back: Solving the Climate and Energy Dilemma, draws on MIT Joint Program research on climate probability and uncertainty.

1. Is it appropriate for investors to hedge against market exposure by placing capital into technologies that result in cleaner burning fossil generation?

2. Will private and public investors accept the risk and continue on a path of cheap fossil fuels, or increase holdings toward the 20-30 percent non-carbon source allocation?

The President’s latest executive order would scrap regulations critical to addressing climate change. But would it also, as he promises, put miners “back to work”? John Reilly and Noelle Selin comment on the latest developments.

"An innovative corporate America, along with the rest of the nation, can benefit from developing low-carbon technologies and other greenhouse gas-reducing options," says MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly.

Popular Science: MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly comments on NASA/NOAA announcement

Regulatory loophole allows wood energy to count as carbon neutral, when it’s often worse for the climate than burning coal. MIT Joint Program Co-Director John Reilly comments.

As the European Union contemplates new policies aimed at meeting its emissions-reduction commitments under last year’s Paris Agreement on climate change, a new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere could provide some valuable guidance on the most effective strategy.