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Inês Azevedo named to committee reviewing fossil fuel funding of research

Members from diverse academic backgrounds have been named to a committee charged with assessing Stanford’s approach to supporting research through funds from fossil fuel companies.

February 24, 2023
Inês Azevedo was an invited speaker in a TEDx-style Faculty Forum on December 9, 2022 where she presented her work titled "Sustainable, Decarbonized and Equitable Energy Systems"

December 09, 2022
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Prof. Azevedo was lead author on a paper published in Science with Shayak Sengupta, Peter Adams, Thomas Deetjen, Puneet Kamboj, Swati D’Souza, Rahul Tongia: "Subnational implications from climate & air pollution policies in India’s electricity sector"

November 11, 2022
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Madalsa Singh & Nora Hennessy presented their work with Inês Azevedo on Feasibility of Deep Decarbonization of California LDV Fleet, at the United States Association for Energy Economics, 39th USAEE/IAEE North American Conference in Houston, Texas

October 23, 2022
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Inês Azevedo moderated an event at Huang Engineering Center on September 29, 2022 where the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, discussed both California and Portugal’s shared climate concerns and sustainability efforts

September 29, 2022
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During the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability launch celebration event, Inês Azevedo's student and Knight-Hennessy scholar, Anela Arifi, was selected to give a speech highlighting her pursuit to become an biofuel engineer at Stanford

September 29, 2022
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Inês Azevedo and co-authors, Liang Min & Ram Rajagopal with PhD students, Siobhan Powell & Gustavo Vianna, published a piece in Nature Energy highlighting the importance of workplace charging for electric vehicles in the Western U.S.

September 22, 2022
Priya Donti and her expertise on AI and climate change was featured in a Popular Science article titled "AI can help fight climate change—but it can also make it worse" talking about the pros and cons on AI on climate change

May 23, 2022
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Inês Azevedo along with colleagues, John Bistline, Chris Bataille and Steven Davis wrote a guest essay for the New York Times titled "We Are Wasting Time on These Climate Debates. The Next Steps Are Clear." which highlights shared goals of moving forward

April 10, 2022
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Stanford energy expert, Accoc. Prof., Inês Azevedo, discusses UN report on climate mitigation and the assessment and changes necessary to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius

April 06, 2022
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Inês Azevedo co-authored with other colleagues in the energy sector, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, released on April 4, 2022 which provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges

April 04, 2022
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Artificial Intelligence in the Fight Against Climate Change: A new report presented at COP26

November 11, 2021
COP26: Promise and limits of vows to rein in methane and protect forests

Stanford experts discuss strengths and weaknesses of major pledges at the UN climate summit that target methane emissions and deforestation.

November 10, 2021
How Much Do Fine Particulates Matter for Public Health? Podcast with Inês Azevedo

October 12, 2021
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Krell Institute Launches ‘Science in Parallel’ Podcast Focusing on Computational Science Innovators

Priya Donti, Kelly Kochanski, and Ben Toms discuss how one of today’s hottest areas of computational research could build better solutions for society’s steepest challenges.

September 01, 2021
Artificial intelligence could dramatically speed up climate action

The list of problems AI can solve is long, and the number of start-ups using AI to solve some of those problems is longer still.

August 20, 2021
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Assoc. Prof. Inês Azevedo was selected for a prestigious Senior Editor position at the Energy Policy journal

August 05, 2021
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PhD student Priya Donti named MIT's Technology Review List of Innovators and is doing a summer internship with DeepMind

July 06, 2021
Inês Azevedo (PI), Sally Beson (co-PI), Adam Brandt (co-PI), Jacques de Chalendar (co-PI) are part of the leading team on new Climate Change and Energy AI effort

June 14, 2021
PhD student Ranjitha Shivaram will be working this summer with NextEra Energy on their new fleet electrification initiative, on assignment from Epitec Inc

June 10, 2021
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