Climate Change

Fellow Story

Uhl's team reports on asthma effects of smog from oil, gas facilities

A first-of-its-kind analysis of the health impacts in the U.S. from ozone smog pollution caused by the oil and gas industry found that pollution will take a toll on Bay State kids.
February 15, 2017
Fellow Story

Charney paper on potential of forests to become source of CO2 covered internationally

Forests could actually turn into a source of CO2, according to a study that paired climate forecasts with an analysis of records on more than two million trees across North America.
February 13, 2017
Fellow Story

Kartikeya Singh: Of Sun Gods and Solar Energy

Politics, capitalism, and energy poverty are combining in strange ways across India. The result looks like progress—sometimes.
February 12, 2017
Foundation News

A new climate for climate change activism

Whether or not your work is rooted in science, we know that uncertainty marks much of our life experience, in both our personal and professional lives. The looming uncertainty we all feel about the unraveling of what we've fought so long...
January 9, 2017
Fellow Story

Here's what could happen if the US pulls out of Paris climate pact

Fellow Kelly Sims Gallagher spoke recently with The GroundTruth Project about Donald Trump’s impact on the international relations of the Paris climate agreement, and what effect the U.S. election might have on climate politics in Europe and China.
December 14, 2016
Foundation News

Switzer Fellows at COP22

Nearly a dozen Switzer Fellows attended and participated in the COP22 climate conference in Marrakech, Morocco, in November. This year's COP was highlighted by two significant trends. One, of course, was the outcome of the U.S. presidential...
December 5, 2016
Fellow Story

Temperatures Rise, and We're Cooked

Jisung Park's work was featured in a recent op-ed by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. Until now, the focus [of climate change discussion] has been on rising seas, more intense hurricanes, acidification of oceans, drought and crop failures. But new studies are finding that some of the most important effects will be directly on our bodies and minds.
November 29, 2016
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Jones quantifies implications of Trump presidency for the climate

In several interviews with prominent media outlets, Climate Interactive’s Andrew Jones and MIT’s Prof. John Sterman elaborated the potential effect of president-elect Trump pulling out of the Paris climate agreement.
November 21, 2016
Fellow Story

Sims Gallagher quoted in CS Monitor on global climate fund

A new world of global climate action is coming into view here in Morocco – a world without US leadership on the issue. The test now is whether global cooperation can proceed and grow at a time when America – in recent years a leader in the push to reduce carbon emissions – has a president-elect who opposes the very concept of climate response.
November 15, 2016
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Green Finance: The Next Frontier for U.S.-China Climate Cooperation

As the United States and China put new policies in place to achieve their national targets and fulfill their domestic and international commitments, both countries confront a common challenge: mobilizing sufficient investment at home to meet domestic energy, climate, and environmental protection goals, while at the same time steering outbound investments toward sustainable projects in other nations that support, rather than undermine, those nations’ climate targets.
October 31, 2016