Past Events

We document and evaluate an informal market for electricity resale in Abomey-Calavi, Benin, where nearly half of electrified households purchase power from neighbors who resell their formal electricity. Informal resellers offer a different contract than the utility: a low connection...

In September the Institute sponsored its second cohort of undergraduates to attend Climate Week NYC in New York City.

Forty-nine of the top 50 countries with the most polluted air are located in the Global South, where economic growth and environmental quality are often treated as competing priorities. Emissions markets are a cost-effective solution, yet access to the tools...

El Niño is turning this summer’s already-record heat up a notch, threatening to drive nearly universal above-normal temperatures worldwide. An upcoming Climate Impact Lab report projects that many people could die from this El Niño’s record heat, concentrated overwhelmingly in...

Join us for ice cream and info about our student programming!

From unprecedented heat waves to severe flash floods to extended droughts, the weather events of 2026 have underscored that climate change is already having a real effect on health around the world. Early warnings allow society to plan and adapt...

Join Gabriel Presler, Senior Lecturer and Executive Director of the Master of Science in Climate and Energy Policy (MSCEP) and Ranjan Daniels, Senior Associate Dean of Student Recruitment and Global Outreach, for a virtual information session about the MS in...

A moment to share — and raise up — global ambition for clean air action.

This symposium, co-hosted by the Japan America Society of Chicago and University of Chicago’s Energy Technologies Initiative and Energy Transition Network, examines international collaboration in advanced battery technology, bringing together researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers from the U.S. and Japan....

15 UChicago College students traveled to Delhi and Ahmedabad, India to learn about the climate and growth challenge through the Institute's India Summer Fellows Program.