More than 300 MIT faculty members are already working on different aspects of the climate problem. The Climate Project will enable them to do bigger things faster and work more effectively with local and international partners to connect MIT’s climate activities to the practical world of impact.
Science and solutions for life in a changing world
As an institution with a history of rising to meet serious challenges, MIT is mounting a bold, tenacious new response to the global threat posed by climate change. The Climate Project at MIT is a whole-Institute mobilization through which the Institute will become one of the world’s most prolific and collaborative sources of technological, behavioral, and policy solutions for the global climate challenge within the next decade.
The Climate Project is a nimble organizational approach that represents a new model of university-led innovation to achieve fast, practical impact at scale. Three interconnected, discipline-spanning components—Climate Missions, Climate Frontier Projects, and the Climate HQ—will make it possible for the people of MIT to identify critical gaps in the global climate response and experiment with novel ways to deploy our intellectual resources and engage external partners to tackle them.
The initiative will be guided and shaped by the vice president for climate at MIT, a newly created role.
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.
3 Questions: The Climate Project at MIT
Richard Lester describes an emerging new initiative that will back climate efforts at the Institute and find outside partnerships to drive actionable innovation.