Regional Analysis

Projecting sub-national, national and multi-national environmental and economic change under different policy scenarios

Understanding local energy, economic, political and geographic conditions is crucial for any realistic analysis of viable policy options that relate to global change. However, local development plans are often affected by the performance of global markets. Our analytic tools allow us to produce regional analyses while ensuring that impacts from global markets and local development in other regions are adequately represented. We conduct a wide range of high-resolution regional studies at subnational, national, and multinational levels.

Africa • Asia & Australasia • Europe • North America • South & Central America

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Publications

Special Report

Strzepek, K. and Schlosser, C.A., contributors, Climate Risk Stress Test ((flooding analysis and climate-risk scenarios) (2025)
South African Reserve Bank

News + Media

Port Arthur flooding
In The News
Texas Observer

Recent agency layoffs and the dismantling of federal relief programs imperil the extreme-weather-prone Lone Star State, says MIT CS3-affiliate/Professor of Management Emeritus Henry Jacoby (Texas Observer)

People

Research staff
Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
Research staff
Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy; MIT Energy Initiative
Research staff
Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Research staff
Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy; MIT Energy Initiative