The 2023 Global Change Outlook presents the MIT Joint Program’s latest projections for the future of the Earth’s energy, food, water and climate systems under existing global climate policies and those aligned with capping global warming at 1.5 C.
A computational tool developed by researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change pinpoints specific counties within the United States that are particularly vulnerable to economic distress resulting from a transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy sources.
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MIT's STRESS platform enables users to assess multiple, co-evolving, compounding environmental and economic hazards within a U.S. geographical region. This screening-level visualization tool can pinpoint risk “hot spots” that can be subsequently investigated in greater detail.
As America's largest investment to fight climate change, the Inflation Reduction Act positions the country to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.