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The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth is unique amongst major U.S. academic research organizations in having established centers in key countries central to the global climate and growth challenge.  The University of Chicago’s center in India enables Institute researchers to build partnerships with government and industry and learn about local challenges and opportunities. For more than ten years, UChicago economists have fostered these real-world partnerships, allowing them to identify novel ideas, pilot these ideas on the ground, and rigorously measure outcomes on a practical basis not often seen in academia. This has led to improvements in electricity markets, more informed and robust inspections that have strengthened environmental enforcement, better weather forecasting to help farmers adapt to climate change, a new wave of pollution markets at work making the air cleaner, and more. Moving forward, Institute scholars will be exploring research partnerships related to energy technologies and climate systems engineering.