The Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute seeks to contribute to a resilient, equitable, and sustainable climate future. RCEI connects faculty, staff, and students through transformative climate change research, innovation, education, and outreach.
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The Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute seeks to contribute to a resilient, equitable, and sustainable climate future. RCEI connects faculty, staff, and students through transformative climate change research, innovation, education, and outreach.

Rutgers Climate Symposium Highlights

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RCEI Symposium 2025: The Blue Planet

On November 12, 2025, researchers, faculty, and student scholars from academic and research institutions across the Mid-Atlantic gathered for Rutgers' annual Climate Symposium, designed to foster collaboration among the climate change and energy research communities in our region.  The 2025 theme, The Blue Planet, invited consideration of the role of the oceans in Earth's climate and the tightly connected ramifications of the climate crisis for the oceans.
Full event archive including recordings and abstracts available here.

Affiliate Research Highlight

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Large Ice Sheets Existed Much Earlier Than Scientists Thought 

Publication by Yair Rosenthal, RCEI Affiliate

A new study co-authored by Yair Rosenthal has overturned the long-standing view held about the size of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, having developed a method to reconstruct global sea levels of the past using chemical signatures in ocean sediments. Through this novel understanding of ancient ice sheet dynamics, scientists can make better predictions about how global temperature changes affect sea levels, essential for our changing climate. 
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RCEI Annual Impact Report

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Rutgers Climate & Energy Institute 2024–2025 Annual Impact Report

Check out highlights from this year’s initiatives in research community building, research development support, early-career scholar development, and more!
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RCEI Affiliate News

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UN Panel Selects Three RCEI Affiliates as Lead Authors on Next Global Climate Report

RCEI Affiliates Robert Kopp, Pamela McElwee, and Kevon Rhiney have been named lead authors for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Seventh Assessment Report, the world’s most authoritative evaluation of climate change.

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RCEI Affiliate News

Pam McElwee and Bob Kopp

Climate Experts’ Review U.S. DOE Climate Working Group Report

RCEI Affiliates Robert Kopp and Pamela McElwee co-authored – with Kopp also serving as Co-Editor – the Climate Experts’ Review of the DOE (Department of Energy) Climate Working Group Report, which found the DOE report’s key claims on extreme weather and carbon dioxide benefits to be “misleading or fundamentally incorrect.”

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Now, more than ever, we need you.

Our work has never mattered more. We all understand the stakes. The Earth continues to warm, and human and ecological communities suffer from the impacts of a changing climate. The creativity, passion, and stubborn resolve RCEI affiliates and their students have for their climate change and renewable energy scholarship persevere.

Your contributions will support graduate students and early career scholars, research programs that develop real-world solutions, and building connections between the arts and sciences.

Support RCEI Today

    Rutgers Climate Symposium Highlights

    RCEI Symposium 2025: The Blue Planet

    Full event archive including recordings and abstracts available here.

    RCEI Annual Impact Report

    RCEI Report Logo

    Rutgers Climate & Energy Institute 2024–2025 Annual Impact Report

    Check out highlights from this year’s initiatives in research community building, research development support, early-career scholar development, and more!
    View the Report

    RCEI Affiliate News

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    UN Panel Selects Three RCEI Affiliates as Lead Authors on Next Global Climate Report

    RCEI Affiliates Robert Kopp, Pamela McElwee, and Kevon Rhiney have been named lead authors for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Seventh Assessment Report, the world’s most authoritative evaluation of climate change.

    Read more

    Affiliate Research Highlight

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    Large Ice Sheets Existed Much Earlier Than Scientists Thought

    Publication by Yair Rosenthal, RCEI Affiliate

    A new study co-authored by Yair Rosenthal has overturned the long-standing view held about the size of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, having developed a method to reconstruct global sea levels of the past using chemical signatures in ocean sediments. Through this novel understanding of ancient ice sheet dynamics, scientists can make better predictions about how global temperature changes affect sea levels, essential for our changing climate.

    Read More

    RCEI Affiliate News

    Pam McElwee and Bob Kopp

    Climate Experts’ Review U.S. DOE Climate Working Group Report

    RCEI Affiliates Robert Kopp and Pamela McElwee co-authored – with Kopp also serving as Co-Editor – the Climate Experts’ Review of the DOE (Department of Energy) Climate Working Group Report, which found the DOE report’s key claims on extreme weather and carbon dioxide benefits to be “misleading or fundamentally incorrect.”

    Read more

    Now, more than ever, we need you.

    Our work has never mattered more. We all understand the stakes. The Earth continues to warm, and human and ecological communities suffer from the impacts of a changing climate. The creativity, passion, and stubborn resolve RCEI affiliates and their students have for their climate change and renewable energy scholarship persevere.

    Your contributions will support graduate students and early career scholars, research programs that develop real-world solutions, and building connections between the arts and sciences.

    Now, more than ever, we need you. 

    Support RCEI Today
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      December 2, 2025

      Turning Liquid Fuel into Clean Energy: A New Cobalt Catalyst Could Help Power the Future 

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      November 21, 2025

      Built to Fail: Rules at UN Climate Talks Favor the Status Quo, Not Progress

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      Dec / 2025

      Sea-Level Rise Accelerates in New Jersey, Raising Coastal Flooding Risk, Study Says

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      Dec / 2025

      Connecting Campus and Coast: SEBS/NJAES Faculty and Staff Experience Rutgers’ Collaborative Impact Down the Shore 

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      Dec / 2025

      Turning Liquid Fuel into Clean Energy: A New Cobalt Catalyst Could Help Power the Future 

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