User:Vipul/Princeton Environmental Institute

The Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) is an "interdisciplinary center of environmental research, education, and outreach" at Princeton University.

PEI was started in 1994. About 90 faculty members at Princeton University are affiliated with it.

Research centers
PEI has the following research centers:


 * Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI): This is a 15-year long partnership between PEI and British Petroleum with the goal of finding solutions to problems related to climate change. The Stabilization Wedge Game has been created as part of this initiative.
 * Center for BioComplexity (CBC)
 * Cooperative Institute for Climate Science (CICS): This is a collaboration with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.
 * Energy Systems Analysis Group
 * Grand Challenges

Reception
Scholars from PEI have often been quoted in publications such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Research conducted by people at PEI is often discussed on climate blogs such as Watts Up with That?.