Princeton University mechanical engineering professor Jesse D. Jenkins has become a clear voice in predicting and understanding climate-change impacts now and in the future, and in leading efforts to model how solutions might work and how to get them done.
Since his arrival at Princeton in 2019, he has directed its Net-Zero America Project, which quantifies pathways to decarbonize the U.S. economy. More recently, Jenkins has been a key architect of research and advocacy through its REPEAT project to show why carbon cuts won’t happen without major government action. The team’s analyses of Biden administration policies and Congressional legislation—notably last year's fast-moving climate change law—became critical tools for policymakers, and everyone else, to understand the response path ahead.
