Increasingly, the race against climate change is becoming a sprint to develop technology that can speed progress toward the measures that will lessen manmade environmental degradation. It’s why President Joe Biden put a spotlight on technology at a global summit on climate this week, and why big names like Bill Gates are getting involved.

That’s a signal for research and development hubs to put resources behind the effort.

Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University is a major hub for research, consistently ranking as the top attractor of research dollars in the nation. On Thursday, which was Earth Day, the university said it was standing up a new institute specifically to focus on green energy technologies.

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