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Earth.org
Report cites MIT Joint Program study projecting significant water-supply risks by 2050 (Earth.org)
News and Outreach: Kenneth Strzepek
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Tapping the land for climate solutions
Workshop explores sustainable, equitable pathways to transform agriculture, forestry and other land uses into net carbon sinks
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Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab
The Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability — a project supported by Community Jameel — will study the implications of climate change on food security as they relate to trade (J-WAFS)
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MIT School of Science
To better inform local policy in the face of changing weather extremes, MIT researchers--including seven affiliated with the Joint Program--seek to advance the modeling of long-term weather risks (MIT School of Science)
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MIT News
Joint Program researchers participating in three: Bringing Computation to the Climate Challenge, Preparing for a new world of weather and climate extremes, and The Climate Resilience Early Warning System (MIT News) (Coverage: Boston Business Journal)
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MIT News
MIT Joint Program research scientists are co-investigators on one-third of the selected projects, with a focus on decarbonizing complex industries and preparing for climate extremes. (MIT News)
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On January 12, 2022, MIT Joint Program Research Scientist Kenneth Strzepek presented a talk entitled "The role of Nile water resources in the economic development of Egypt and Ethiopia, and the potential impacts of the GERD filling policies." The talk was part of "The Nile River Basin in Crisis:
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MIT News
Study underscores need for aggressive climate mitigation and adaptation policies to prevent future ‘Day Zero’ droughts in dry, populated regions around the world
News Brief
AGU Fall Meeting goes hybrid for 2021
MIT Joint Program researchers to present recent findings on global and regional change
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MIT Office of Sustainability
With the MIT campus as a test bed, a citizen science effort provides lessons well beyond MIT (MIT Office of Sustainability)
News Brief
Climate effects on US infrastructure
The economics of adaptation for rail, roads and coastal development
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Why the Earth needs a course correction now
2021 Global Change Outlook shows how more aggressive policies can sharply reduce climate risk
Recent Publications
Special Report
Strzepek, K. and Schlosser, C.A., contributors, Climate Risk Stress Test ((flooding analysis and climate-risk scenarios) (2025)
South African Reserve Bank
Conference Abstract
Boukin, K., K.M. Strzepek and G. Remias (2024)
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, H52F-02
Conference Abstract
Boukin, K., K.M. Strzepek and R. Kirchain (2024)
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, NH34A-03
News + Media
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Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability launched at UK forum
Keynote address by MIT CS3 Research Scientist Kenneth Strzepek highlights value of index in assessing country-level food security risk
In The News
Science
The burgeoning global food trade is a lifeline for billions, but it is fragile and hard on the planet
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MIT Latif Jameel Water & Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS)
MIT Joint Program project to focus on food security in Africa under a changing climate (MIT J-WAFS)