Health effects of China’s climate policy extend across Pacific

Improved air quality in China could prevent nearly 2,000 premature deaths in the U.S.

Mark Dwortzan | Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change • mit
July 29, 2019 ~4 min

Cambridge historian and his family members announced as joint winners of one of the biggest cash prizes in world economics

A ‘radical’ plan by three members of the same family to boost UK growth has been named as one of the first winners of the £100,000 Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Economics Prize, one of the world’s largest prizes in the discipline.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
July 10, 2019 ~5 min


Pathways to a low-carbon China

Study projects a key role for carbon capture and storage.

Mark Dwortzan | Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change • mit
July 8, 2019 ~5 min

Empowering African farmers with data

Research from the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society aims to help African farmers increase their production and profits with better prediction.

Scott Murray | Institute for Data, Systems, and Society • mit
May 30, 2019 ~6 min

Nationwide soda tax would mean $7B in net benefits

Economists considered health, enjoyment, tax revenue, and other factors in their consideration of a nationwide soda tax.

James Devitt-NYU • futurity
May 20, 2019 ~5 min

Building a community for statistics and data science at MIT and beyond

Third annual MIT Statistics and Data Science conference gathers a growing interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners.

Scott Murray | Institute for Data, Systems, and Society • mit
May 10, 2019 ~5 min

Study: For low-income countries, climate action pays off by 2050

Economic benefits of mitigation arrive much sooner than previously thought.

Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change • mit
May 1, 2019 ~5 min

Climate change has already worsened economic inequality

"...most of the poorest countries on Earth are considerably poorer than they would have been without global warming."

Josie Garthwaite-Stanford • futurity
April 23, 2019 ~7 min


Model can predict tariff impact ahead of time

A new model can account for the impact of trade tariffs like those the Trump administration has imposed on steel and soybeans.

Kurt Greenbaum-WUSTL • futurity
April 19, 2019 ~7 min

Study shows China can be carbon-negative in an economically competitive way

Researchers have analyzed technical and economic viability for China to move toward carbon-negative electric power generation and found that China can do so in an economically competitive way.

Leah Burrows • harvard
April 19, 2019 ~7 min

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