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New advisory panel to provide essential guidance on current climate data best practices and needs (Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs)
To know if bioenergy is truly a low-carbon resource, we must count emissions from growing, transporting, and processing the associated crops, check whether those crops were replanted, and add in any emissions from creating farmland to grow more of them. (MIT Climate Portal)
Temperatures will likely stop rising in a few years or decades—but it could take centuries for them to fall to the levels humans enjoyed before we started burning fossil fuels (MIT Climate Portal)
Knowledge to action: Co-developing local solutions to the climate crisis
Co-authors say map presented in the Mandate is of 'a road to ruin' (The Hill)
IRA helps to bring projected U.S. power sector and economy-wide emissions closer to near-term climate targets (EPRI)
2023 Global Change Outlook quantifies benefits of policies that cap global warming at 1.5°C
A call for a concerted scientific effort to understand the risks posed by exceeding them (The Hill)
Paper connects long-term climate scenarios with corresponding financial impacts at the company level (Amundi)
Held up as the temperature limit that should not be crossed, 1.5 degrees Celsius is more than just a number. So what's behind it, and what happens if it is exceeded? (DW)
A recent forum was the first in a series planned at MIT this year, part of an initiative meant to encourage the open exchange of ideas (MIT SHASS)