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Climate & Environment

Research focused on energy’s impact on climate and the environment and how the sector’s negative impacts on both can be mitigated

Clouds over the Arctic Ocean Credit: Patrick Kelley, U.S. Coast Guard

As a key focus of MIT's Plan for Action on Climate Change, climate and environmental research is also a focus at MITEI.

During the 2015 Paris climate talks, members of the MIT community reflected on global climate and energy challenges and solutions, and the potential for the summit to bring the world closer to a low-carbon energy future. We shared news and insights before, during, and after COP21.

Research

Assessing climate impacts of energy technologies

A new accounting of methane’s role

Regulating particulate pollution

Novel analysis yields new insights

Publications

Enhanced Decision Support for a Changing Electricity Landscape

November 2017

Jesse Jenkins, Nestor Sepulveda

Business models for distributed energy resources: A review and empirical analysis

October 2017

Scott Burger

A review of the value of aggregators in electricity systems

September 2017

Scott Burger, Carlos Batlle, Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga

News

3Q: Ernest Moniz on the Vatican climate dialogue

Professor emeritus and former U.S. energy secretary reflects on recent meeting with Pope Francis and energy and finance leaders.

3 Questions: Innovating for the clean energy economy

Daniel Kammen of the University of California at Berkeley discusses current efforts in clean energy innovation and implementation, and what's coming next.

Exploring ethical dimensions of climate negotiation

People

Sallie Chisholm Institute Professor

Office of the Provost
Emre Gençer Postdoctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative
Ahmed Ghoniem Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Karen Gleason Associate Provost

Office of the Provost
Howard Herzog Executive Director, CCUS center; Senior Research Engineer

MIT Energy Initiative
David Hsu Assistant Professor

Urban Studies & Planning
Henry Jacoby Professor Emeritus

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Sloan School of Management
Ruben Juanes Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Janelle Knox-Hayes Associate Professor

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Urban Studies & Planning
Jesse Kroll Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Heather Kulik Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
Kent Larson Principal Research Scientist

MIT Media Lab
Richard Lester Associate Provost and Professor

Office of the Provost
Dharik Mallapragada Postdoctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative
Karthish Manthiram Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
Youssef Marzouk Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Leslie Norford Professor

Architecture
Elsa Olivetti Assistant Professor

Materials Science and Engineering
Tomás Palacios Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Sergey Paltsev Senior Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
John Parsons Senior Lecturer

Sloan School of Management
Ronald Prinn Director and Professor

Center for Global Change Science; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
John Reilly Senior Lecturer

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Sloan School of Management
Christoph Reinhart Associate Professor

Architecture
Gregory Rutledge Professor

Chemical Engineering
Apurba Sakti Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative
Richard Schmalensee Professor

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Sloan School of Management
Nestor Sepulveda

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society; Nuclear Science and Engineering
Yang Shao-Horn Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Eugene Skolnikoff Professor Emeritus

Political Science
Zachary Smith Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering
Zoltan Spakovszky Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Yogesh Surendranath Associate Director, CCUS center; Assistant Professor

Chemistry
Lawrence Susskind Professor

Urban Studies & Planning
Qiqi Wang Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics
Chien Wang Senior Research Scientist

Center for Global Change Science; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Christopher Warshaw Associate Professor

Political Science
James Wescoat Professor

Architecture
Karen Willcox Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics