The 14th Carbon Mitigation Initiative Annual Meeting
May 11, 2015 ・ Holly P. WellesThe Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) held its 14th annual meeting at Princeton University on April 14 and 15, 2015. More than 100 participants gathered to discuss CMI’s most recent initiatives in the areas of science, technology, and integration and outreach. …
Will Tropical Forests Continue to Store Carbon?
March 23, 2015 ・ Igor HeifetzSocolow’s “Commitment Accounting of CO2 Emissions” Featured in ELR’s 2014 Top 25 Highlights
March 17, 2015 ・ Holly P. WellesRobert Socolow, a Princeton professor, emeritus, of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and co-author Steven Davis, a professor of earth system science at UC-Irvine wrote a paper entitled ’Commitment Accounting of CO2 Emissions’ article is featured in Environmental Research Letters (ERL)…
Soil’s Large Carbon Stores Could Be Freed by Increased CO2, Plant Growth
December 23, 2014 ・ Morgan Kelly, Office of Communications
Abandoned Wells Can Be ‘Super-emitters’ of Greenhouse Gas
December 9, 2014 ・ John Sullivan, Office of Engineering CommunicationsPrinceton University researchers have uncovered a previously unknown, and possibly substantial, source of the greenhouse gas methane to the Earth’s atmosphere. After testing a sample of abandoned oil and natural gas wells in northwestern Pennsylvania, the researchers found that many…
With an Extension of Financial Support from BP, Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative Now to Run to 2020
November 23, 2014 ・ Holly WellesPrinceton University President Christopher E. Eisgruber (left) and Felipe Bayon (right), senior vice president, BP America, shaking hands during the Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) renewal announcement. (Photo by Mark Czaijkowski) In support of a long established partnership to find compelling and…
Carbon Mitigation Initiative News – Fall 2014
September 13, 2014 ・ Holly P. WellesThe Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) held its 13th annual meeting at Princeton University on April 15 and 16, 2014. More than 90 participants gathered to discuss CMI’s most recent initiatives in the areas of low-carbon energy and carbon storage, storage,…
Project Selected for Safe and Permanent Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide
August 27, 2014 ・ Brenda MikeoThe U.S. Department of Energy has selected a project led by Princeton University Professor Michael Celia for funding. The project is one of 13 chosen to develop technologies and methodologies for geologic storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). Celia’s project, which is joint with Lawrence…
Coal’s Continued Dominance of Global Industrialization Must Be Made More Vivid in Climate Change Accounting
August 21, 2014 ・ Holly P. WellesEmissions that occur over the lifetime of a fossil-fuel-burning electric generator are today routinely assigned to the year of emission ((a), blue blocks). Socolow and Davis present an alternate accounting where the same emissions are instead recorded as committed emissions…
