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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Rutgers Climate Symposium: The Blue Planet

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Fostering collaboration among researchers and students from academic and research institutions in the Mid-Atlantic region who are interested in climate
change, renewable energy, energy efficiency, or other approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions across disciplines representing climate science, human dimensions, technology, the arts, communications, and humanities.

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Affiliate Research Highlight

How Plants Remember Stress: A Key to Surviving Heat Waves

Publication by Bingru Huang, RCEI Affiliate

Bingru Huang from the Department of Plant Biology has released a new study detailing the incredible ability of plants to actually "remember" past stressful events and, as a result, be able to tolerate extreme weather in the future. This finding could develop into methods of farming that expose crops to mild heat early on, and thus help them withstand the scorching heats of future climate change without an over reliance on genetic modification.

RCEI Annual Impact Report

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

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.

RCEI Affiliate News

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.”

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

Registration Now Open!

Rutgers Climate Symposium: The Blue Planet

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Fostering collaboration among researchers and students from academic and research institutions in the Mid-Atlantic region who are interested in climate
change, renewable energy, energy efficiency, or other approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions across disciplines representing climate science, human dimensions, technology, the arts, communications, and humanities.

Learn More

RCEI Annual Impact Report

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!

Download PDF

View the Report

RCEI Affiliate News

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.

Affiliate Research Highlight

How Plants Remember Stress: A Key to Surviving Heat Waves

Publication by Bingru Huang, RCEI Affiliate

Bingru Huang from the Department of Plant Biology has released a new study detailing the incredible ability of plants to actually "remember" past stressful events and, as a result, be able to tolerate extreme weather in the future. This finding could develop into methods of farming that expose crops to mild heat early on, and thus help them withstand the scorching heats of future climate change without an over reliance on genetic modification.

RCEI Affiliate News

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.”

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