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Prof. Christopher Knittel, Mission Director at the MIT Climate Project, is one of the players shaping policy conversations around data centers’ growing impact on the power grid. 

In Bangkok, Prof. Christopher Knittel, Mission Director at the MIT Climate Project, emphasized that analytical tools must be paired with direct engagement by decision-makers.

Christopher Knittel and Bethany Patten shared a live demonstration of the En-ROADS climate simulator, an interactive global climate policy tool, from the MIT Climate Policy Center. 

Authors Scott Odell, program scientist at the Climate Project, and Julieta Godfrid draw on previous theoretical work to investigate under what conditions a mining company constructing a desalination plant results in hydro social displacements and associated conflict.

The planet’s searing temperatures are sustained by a thick atmosphere full of carbon dioxide.