October 1, 2020

Revamped MIT Climate Portal aims to inform and empower the public

MIT today announced a dramatic overhaul of the MIT Climate Portal, climate.mit.edu, which provides timely, science-based information about the causes and consequences of climate change.

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September 25, 2020

Towards Carbon Neutrality in Energy and Transportation: The Role of Hydrogen

In this upcoming webinar on Oct. 8, organized in collaboration with the MIT Energy Initiative Electric Power Systems Low Carbon Center, three experts will weigh in on the prospects of hydrogen from different backgrounds and regional contexts.

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September 16, 2020

Quantifying the Distributional Impacts of Rooftop Solar Adoption

A new CEEPR Working Paper shows that residential rooftop solar PV adoption under typical electricity tariffs that inefficiently recover residual costs through volumetric charges creates substantial income distributional effects, specifically increasing average expenditures substantially for non-adopters, which tend to be predominantly lower income customers.

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September 11, 2020

Understanding the Economic and Environmental Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The next webinar in the CEEPR Fall 2020 series takes place on Thursday September 24, and brings together Professor Jing Li and Professor Christopher Knittel – the authors of two CEEPR working papers evaluating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through use of empirical data.

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September 11, 2020

Axios features Roosevelt Project rollout webinar

In a post on Axios, Amy Harder recaps some highlights from her discussion with MIT’s Ernest Moniz during the Roosevelt Project webinar.

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September 10, 2020

The Roosevelt Project Working Papers Now Available

The first nine Working Papers have been released under the Roosevelt Project, an initiative examining the transitional challenges associated with progress toward a deeply decarbonized U.S. economy. Please click here to access the series page.

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