Global Snapshot

New ‘risk triage’ platform pinpoints compounding threats to U.S. infrastructure

Modeling tool showcases emerging MIT Joint Program research focus on multi-sector dynamics

Scientists project increased risk to water supplies in South Africa this century due to rising temperatures and declining rainfall

Study underscores need for aggressive climate mitigation and adaptation policies to prevent future ‘Day Zero’ droughts in dry, populated regions around the world

MIT collaborates with Biogen on three-year, $7 million initiative to address climate, health and equity

New work within the Joint Program to establish a state-of-the-art integrated model of climate and health aimed at identifying targets that deliver climate and health co-benefits

AGU Fall Meeting goes hybrid for 2021

MIT Joint Program researchers to present recent findings on global and regional change

jOINT PROGRAM DEPUTY DIRECTOR SERGEY PALTSEV DELIVERS FEATURED PRESENTATION AT matLAB COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE CONFERENCE

Talk explores using energy-economic models for climate-related financial impact analysis

FOR COMPANIES TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE, AN 'ACTION PLAN' IS NEEDED

Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev discusses climate change, the shift to net zero emissions, and how businesses can address climate risks (Yahoo Finance) 

PODCAST: THE BATTERY-POWERED ELECTRIC VEHICLE AS A POTENTIAL CLIMATE SOLUTION

Joint Program Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev explores prospects for decarbonizing EVs (TBS eFM Radio (Seoul))

STUDY: GLOBAL CANCER RISK FROM BURNING ORGANIC MATTER COMES FROM UNREGULATED CHEMICALS

The researchers hope scientists and regulators will consider a broader class of compounds in evaluating cancer risk due to PAH exposure.

THE BIG PICTURE

MIT experts outline issues, offer hope for climate action

MIT APPOINTS MEMBERS OF NEW FACULTY COMMITTEE TO DRIVE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN

Professors Noelle Selin and Anne White will co-chair the Climate Nucleus, charged with managing and implementing MIT’s new plan

FOR CAMPUS "POROSITY HUNTERS," CLIMATE RESILIENCE IS THE GOAL

MIT experts outline issues, offer hope for climate action