The Climate Project at MIT is a whole-Institute effort to accelerate climate progress through systems thinking, real-world partnerships, and integrated solutions that can be deployed at scale.
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Building the systems and communities that sustain well-being for the people and the planet
The world is entering a decisive era—one that demands new ways of imagining, building, and sustaining the systems that support human life. The Climate Project is MIT’s bold response: a whole-Institute effort to design the resilient, low-carbon communities of tomorrow and the pathways to make them real. The initiative is guided and shaped by Evelyn Wang ’00, the vice president for energy and climate at MIT.
The future will not be shaped by isolated innovations, but by the ways entire systems interact: energy, water, food, transportation, health, buildings, industry, and the digital world. By treating climate change as a systems challenge, we can build well-being at every level—local and global, human and planetary—and, in doing so, change the expected trajectory of our shared future.
Within a generation, we aim to decarbonize energy systems, ensure efficient movement of people and goods, manage climate interventions without unintended consequences, balance water availability across competing needs, secure sustainable food supplies, revitalize local production networks, and strengthen the built environment without increasing physical and social stresses.
MIT has always stepped forward when imagination and action were equally required. The Climate Project brings that spirit to the defining challenge and opportunity of our time.
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Frontier Projects
The Climate Project Frontier Projects are areas where MIT can make a distinctive, significant, and measurable impact. Download the one-pagers below.
Building Coastal Resilience
Decarbonizing Ports and Shipping
Data Centers of the Future
Reinventing Agriculture
Evelyn Wang: A New Energy Source at MIT
MIT’s first vice president for energy and climate is working to accelerate research and development toward transformational solutions.
Video: The Climate Project at MIT
The Climate Project at MIT, a major campus-wide effort, includes new arrangements for promoting cross-Institute collaborations and new mechanisms for engaging with outside partners to speed the development and implementation of climate solutions.
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Support the Climate Project at MIT
Your philanthropic support helps move proven ideas into the world, scale what works, and create lasting climate resilience. There are many hands, but one future—and we must build well-being together.
To learn more about making your gift to the Climate Project, connect with Elizabeth Crabtree, executive director, Development Planning and Initiatives, at [email protected] or 617.715.5798.