News Releases
A special issue of the MIT CS3 e-newsletter
Highlights of MIT CS3 research, active projects and media coverage in 2025
In research that could help elucidate humans’ role in global warming, MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Susan Solomon and co-authors show how three major natural events impacted global atmospheric temperatures
Series provides overview of the Earth’s climate system, its societal impacts, and efforts to minimize those impacts
Multiple MIT CS3 researchers have shared their climate science and policy expertise on the new podcast (Boston College Schiller Institute)
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)
New Global Change Outlook shows how accelerated action can reduce climate risks and improve sustainability outcomes, while highlighting potential geopolitical hurdles
Study by CS3 researchers and co-authors shows that cutting air travel and purchasing renewable energy can lead to different effects on overall air quality, even while achieving the same CO2 reduction (MIT News)
Inspired and informed by a Global Climate Policy Project (GCPP) at Harvard and MIT report spearheaded by MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Catherine Wolfram, leaders from 20 countries and the European Union eventually signed on to a new Open Coalition for Compliance Carbon Markets (MIT Climate Policy Center) (Coverage: E&E News)
MIT CS3 Research Scientist Kenneth Strzepek and colleagues present findings on food trade, import vulnerability, and security at IFPRI policy seminar in Washington, D.C./online
A new, interactive, Temperature-Change-by-Location map co-developed by Climate Interactive and MIT's Bringing Computation to the Climate Challenge (BC3) displays projected temperature changes in local areas across the century under different scenarios. The MIT BC3 team includes several MIT CS3-affiliated researchers. (Climate Interactive)