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Hottest day on record. Hottest month on record. Extreme marine heatwaves. Record-low Antarctic sea-ice.

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.

Highlights: • GCNT Forum 2021: Thailand’s Climate Leadership Summit 2021 on the theme of “A New Era of Accelerated Actions” is the country’s first leadership summit on solutions to climate change. The event welcomed more than 800 participants from the public and private sectors, civil society, and the United Nations in Thailand. • Exploring five solutions from five leadership discussion panels, including a situational analysis on climate change in Thailand, solutions for the business...

Why the Earth needs a course correction now June 14, 2021MIT The massive impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on lives and economies underscores that our collective survival and well-being hinges on our willingness to confront environmental threats that have global consequences. Key to protecting lives and making communities more resilient to such threats will be an emphasis on proactive, science-based decision-making at all levels of society. And among the most serious risks that science can help i...