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Decarbonizing Air Condition

Faculty Lead: John Fernandez

Project Description: Professor Fernandez directs the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, which works to coordinate and develop interdisciplinary solutions to urgent challenges in environment and sustainability. One project that ESI is currently undertaking focuses on decarbonizing air conditioning technologies in India. The IPL is assisting in identifying the policy challenges and potential solutions to this problem.

IPL Support: Providing contacts to relevant people at MIT, helping frame and develop a workshop, editing policy documents, researching examples of similar policy problems, participating in a workshop.