News Releases
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)
A new study by MIT Assistant Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate Haruko Wainwright and co-authors analyzes different nuclear waste management strategies, with a focus on the radionuclide iodine-129 (MIT News)
Findings from the latest project phase highlight strategies for a just and competitive transition in steel, critical minerals and the electric grid. MIT Professor/CS3-affiliate Elsa Olivetti is a project faculty member. (MIT CEEPR)
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 (Future Earth)
MIT EAPS postdoctoral associate Paolo Giani is a collaborator for Extreme-Aware Meteorological Years: Open Weather Data for Climate-Resilient Building Simulations, one of seven projects recognized by the prize, which aims to promote transparency and reproducibility of research through open data policies (MIT EAPS)
MIT CS3 presentations highlight multiple sustainability challenges and solutions
The newest MIT engineering faculty, including MIT Boeing Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics/CS3 faculty affiliate Daniel Varon, are conducting research across a diverse range of subject areas (MIT School of Engineering)