MIT COP-21

International shipping and aviation remain the elephants in the room at COP21

The Paris agreement of Dec 12, 2015 will most likely go down in history as a major tipping point in the fight against climate change. It is an ambitious and important document, but it is not…

COP21 Reflection: energy efficiency at COP21

In my initial observations of COP21 discussions on Twitter, blogs, and news feeds, energy efficiency seemed to get brushed under the rug. It can be hard to focus on energy efficiency, which many people think just means light bulbs, as a strategy to…

COP21 Mini Reflection: celebrity faces and voices important for sparking discussion on climate change

How do you get the general public to care about climate change? Scientists, policy wonks, and other climate experts alike seem to believe that everyone…

At the end of COP 21: Looking at the scoreboard, looking forward

“Not Totally Happy”

I woke up this morning hoping to sit down to read (and write about) a new global climate change deal… but there still isn’t…

What a bracket!

As negotiators pulled their third consecutive sleepless night in Paris, those of us watching remotely—and indeed members of civil…

Seeing as I spent most of my watch slot feeling intense secondhand embarrassment for a man who forgot to bring his nameplate, who absolutely could not figure out how to sync the…