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Does your insurance protect you from climate risk?
A Colorado wild fire burns behind homes.

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Does your insurance protect you from climate risk?

Research from Wharton’s Parinitha Sastry reveals how climate risk is being mispriced in mortgages and property insurance, leaving homeowners to pay the price.

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At the intersection of energy and agriculture
Students walking along the Donga boardwalk in Kisumu.

As part of a 2024 landscape architecture studio at Weitzman, students traveled to Kisumu and visited the Donga boardwalk and overlook with students from the University of Maseno and Great Lakes University of Kisumu.

(Image: Courtesy of Weitzman News)

At the intersection of energy and agriculture

Through the Goldsmith Sustainable Agriculture Fund at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Penn researchers are responding to a significant science-to-policy gap.

From the Weitzman School of Design

2 min. read

Green infrastructure
Green infrastructure

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Green infrastructure

A roundup of Penn Today stories focusing on green infrastructure on campus, in research, in higher education, and in energy policy.

Penn Today Staff

2 min. read

Proving climate science right
A young person pouring water over their head.

Image: Courtesy of Environmental Innovations Initiative

Proving climate science right

Research from climate scientist Michael Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science, and colleagues vindicates climate models and reframes the record heat of 2024.

From Omnia

2 min. read

2026 PPA renewable energy research projects

2026 PPA renewable energy research projects

As part of Penn’s Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with AES Clean Energy, four new research have been announced with funding from the PPA Renewable Energy Research Program for 2026.

A science policy framework for the climate determinants of health

A science policy framework for the climate determinants of health

This spring, Perry World House and Penn Climate hosted a convening on the margins of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring Meetings to discuss how to further bridge the science-policy gap to inform responses to climate change impacts on health.

When the Schuylkill swallowed the city
Two people looking at the flooded highway overpass in Philadelphia after flooding from Hurricane Ida.

Image: Jessica Kourkounis / Stringer via Getty Images

When the Schuylkill swallowed the city

New Penn research shows that Hurricane Ida wasn’t a once-in-a-century anomaly but a preview of how climate change, urbanization, and aging infrastructure are rewriting flood risk.

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How the Quaker Commitment empowered one student to create her path at Penn
Gabrielle Fine leads a campus tour with prospective students and their families.

Gabrielle Fine, left, leads a Kite & Key campus tour for prospective students and their families. 

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How the Quaker Commitment empowered one student to create her path at Penn

Gabrielle Fine, a fourth year in the Wharton School and recipient of financial aid from the Quaker Commitment, will graduate in May with an interdisciplinary skillset and new perspectives from a global adventure and local engagement.

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