Yael Borofsky is a PhD candidate at ETH Zurich, where her interdisciplinary doctoral work is focused on subsidy targeting and public infrastructure in informal settlements, particularly in Cape Town, South Africa. Yael completed a dual master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning ('15) and in the Technology and Policy Program ('15), where she was a fellow in MIT's Tata Center for Technology and Design and the co-founder of e4Dev, an MIT Energy Initiative-sponsored discussion forum exploring issues at the intersection of energy and human development.
Previously, Yael worked as a researcher and instructor at the MIT Energy Initiative, a research assistant at the ETH Zurich NADEL Center for Development and Cooperation, a reporter at Technical.ly, and a Project Director and Associate Editor of the Breakthrough Journal. She received her bachelor of science in Human Development from Cornell University.
By Yael Borofsky:
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What Comes After Cap and Trade?
Republican Scott Brown's upset victory over Democratic incumbent Martha Coakley for the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat…
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Daily Breakthrough: Avatar, Eco-Paranoia, and Technology
UPDATE: Alternet and Buffalo Beast have both corrected their posts about Roger Pielke Jr. and Breakthrough and…
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The End of "Developing Countries"
In 1992, at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the nations of the world agreed that only developed…
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Energy and Climate
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Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs" Bill’s Clean Energy Investments a Fraction of Expert Recommendations
The latest draft of the Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" would invest less than $10 billion of…
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Kerry-Boxer Carbon Price Will Remain at Price Floor According to First Modeling of Draft Bill
Initial modeling of the Kerry-Boxer climate bill (full text), the Senate sibling of the House-passed…
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Only Technology Policy, Not More Targets and Timetables, Can Save Copenhagen
"Copenhagen climate talks are in trouble," say Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger in their new piece for the…
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Blast from the Past: Romm’s Critique of the Waxman-Markey Blueprint
Here is Joseph Romm of ClimateProgress writing about the United States Climate Action Partnership proposal in January…
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Jumpstarting a Clean Energy Revolution: A Gathering Global Consensus
Today, the United States faces a nation-defining challenge and opportunity - getting America running on clean energy.…
