News & Media: Infrastructure & Investment

The Auxin Solar tariff investigation and uncertainties around tax incentives tanked progress, according to a new American Clean Power report (Canary Media)

Twenty winning projects will link industry member priorities with research groups across campus to develop scalable climate solutions

MIT Energy Initiative report supports energy storage paired with renewable energy to achieve clean energy grids

Members of three working groups outline latest efforts implementing the ambitious plan, launched last year

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry calls the initiative “classic MIT.” The MIT Joint Program is contributing to three of its five flagship projects. (MIT News) (Coverage: Bloomberg, Boston Globe, WBUR, NBC-Boston)

A new platform will unite climate models, impact predictions, random control trial evaluations, and humanitarian services to bring cutting-edge tools to Bangladeshi communities. MIT Climate Grand Challenges flagship project includes seven Joint Program-affiliated contributors. (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

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)

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)

Faculty leaders highlight innovations that can close longstanding knowledge gaps and reimagine how the world responds to the climate crisis