News + Media

A new MIT Global Change Outlook finds current climate policies and economic indicators put the world on track for dangerous warming (Inside Climate News) (Additional coverage: Boston Globe)

MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientist Jennifer Morris co-authors 7th Insight, 'Impacts on labor productivity,' which shows how Increasing heat stress is projected to reduce working hours and economic output (Carbon Brief)

MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Christopher Knittel cites data centers as one factor in driving up prices (Time)

Multiple MIT CS3 researchers have shared their climate science and policy expertise on the new podcast (Boston College Schiller Institute)

Venezuela's oil and gas assets have a methane intensity of about 2,100 grams per gigajoule, while intensity from most other countries is below 100 g/GJ, according to MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Catherine Wolfram. Wolfram said most of these emissions could be reduced if the gas were properly captured or flared, but cautioned that Venezuela lacks the regulatory oversight and investment needed to implement relatively straightforward mitigation measures. (MarketWatch)

As the Institute’s first VP for energy and climate, Evelyn Wang ’00 is marshaling MIT’s expertise to meet the greatest challenge of our age. MIT CS3-affiliated faculty members concur with her assessment of the mission ahead. (MIT Technology Review)

Aiming to compete with Chinese suppliers, a New Hampshire startup recently began producing metal using new processing methods. MIT CS3 faculty affiliate Elsa Olivetti highlights some challenges. (New York Times)

The consortium convenes industry, academia and policy leaders to navigate competing demands and reimagine materials supply. Its faculty co-director is MIT Professor/CS3 affiliate Elsa Olivetti. (MIT Office of the Vice President for Energy and Climate)

Tools for forecasting and modeling technological improvements and the impacts of policy decisions can result in more effective and impactful decision-making, finds study by MIT Professor/CS3 affiliate Jessika Trancik and co-authors (Sociotechnical Systems Research Center)