New analysis by ERG researchers explores whether Africa’s economic growth could impact efforts to reduce global warming.
Africa’s path to green growth
Partnership with KTH Royal Institute of Technology creates opportunities for students
A dozen students from Sweden and California swapped places last week for summer research internships focused on digital transformation, kicking off a new exchange program between UC Berkeley and KTH … Continue Reading »
Study shows PFAS threat to drinking water in rural, predominantly Latinx communities
Public water wells in communities of color might be disproportionately polluted by pesticides contaminated with harmful per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), according to a new study led by a team … Continue Reading »
Professor Andy Jones explains how a Warming Planet can cause bigger Winter Storms, in this clip from CBS News
ERG’s Professor Andy Jones covered an interview with CBS; discussing how Bay Area’s winter storm back in March could be a signal of global warming causing huge storms. “Climate change … Continue Reading »
Daniel Kammen and Berkeley Researchers finds that China is the only Nation on track to triple its Renewable Capacity by 2030
Amid continuing geopolitical tensions, climate change remains a key area of collaboration between the United States and China. Ahead of last November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28, Presidents Biden … Continue Reading »
Rachel Schurman In Memoriam
(June 9, 1958 – March 17, 2024) Rachel Schurman was the first woman to serve on the core faculty of the Energy and Resources Group. She came to Berkeley as … Continue Reading »
Annelise Gill-Wiehl Challenges Cookstove Emission Research
Berkeley’s own Annelise Gill-Wiehl’s conducts research on the affect of efficient cookstoves in Tanzania. Gill-Wiehl, Daniel Kammen, and Kathrine Lau’s findings share that these cookstoves are “overestimated” in their carbon … Continue Reading »
ERG Alumni Rebekah Shirley Featured by the UC Berkeley Graduate Division
ERG Cal Alumni Rebekah Shirley, has a Q&A with Cal Alumni Association as a deputy director of World Resources Institute Africa in sharing her work and hopes in the world’s … Continue Reading »
Berkeley will launch new Masters of Climate Solutions degree in 2025
Organizations, cities, and states around the world are charting paths to quantify and curtail their carbon emissions and uncovering business avenues within climate solutions. In addition to focusing on reducing … Continue Reading »
Zeke Hausfather (PhD ’19) on climate change reality and hope
ERG Alum Zeke Hausfather, Climate Research Lead at Stripe and Research Scientist at Berkeley Earth, published an opinion piece in the New York Times, outlining the dire realities of the … Continue Reading »