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Energy and water autonomy for off-grid waterfront floating structures
Rendering of a floating waterfront prototype

A waterfront floating laboratory prototype. (Image: Thread collective + Oasis Design Lab)

Energy and water autonomy for off-grid waterfront floating structures

The Thermal Architecture Lab at the Weitzman School is part of a collaboration to develop energy and water autonomous systems for off-grid floating structures that are designed to adapt to rising waters.

From The Water Center at Penn

Offsetting carbon emissions, one ton at a time
solar panels in a field

Offsetting carbon emissions, one ton at a time

Carbon offsets are a small but meaningful market in its mission to contribute to greenhouse gas reducing industries and practices in order to compensate for emissions made elsewhere.
Penn signs Power Purchase Agreement for largest solar project in Pennsylvania
Aerial view of large greens landscape with solar panels set out over a large field.

Keystone Solar, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Photo courtesy of Community Energy, Inc.

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Penn signs Power Purchase Agreement for largest solar project in Pennsylvania

The agreement will result in the construction in central Pennsylvania of two new solar energy facilities that combined can generate 220 megawatts of electricity.
What to do when cutting emissions alone is no longer enough
power plant  emitting carbon dioxide into atmosphere on a sunny day, surrounded by trees and roadways..

What to do when cutting emissions alone is no longer enough

Four factors to consider in the race to solve the climate crisis, including how to scale up a tool called negative emissions and why the oceans can only help so much.

Michele W. Berger

Penn sends largest ever delegation to UN climate conference
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At COP 25, the United Nations climate conference that runs from Dec. 2 through Dec. 13, 2019, Penn sent its largest delegation ever, including philosophy professor Michael Weisberg (center, in blue). He and others from around the University participated in the inaugural Resilience Lab and led discussions on topics like adaptation and climate-resilient urban infrastructure. (Image: Jocelyn Perry)

Penn sends largest ever delegation to UN climate conference

At COP 25, representatives from the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Perry World House, Penn IUR, and elsewhere discuss global climate challenges.

Michele W. Berger

‘Climate Risk Solutions,’ a 30-part report on climate change proposals
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‘Climate Risk Solutions,’ a 30-part report on climate change proposals

Wharton’s Steven Kimbrough and Carolyn Kousky and Penn Law's Cary Coglianese discuss the solutions offered by a new report by a number of Penn experts on climate change, “Climate Risk Solutions.”