Climate Action Advisory Committee, 2017-2018

In October 2015, MIT’s Senior Officers released the Institute’s Plan for Action on Climate Change. This plan embodies the fundamental agreement across the MIT community that the problem of climate change, the subject of serious work at MIT for decades, demands society’s urgent attention, and that given the Institute’s mission, history and capabilities, MIT has a particular responsibility to lead. The goal of the plan is “to minimize emission of carbon dioxide, methane and other global warming agents into the atmosphere, and to devise pathways for adaptation to climate change, through the active involvement of the MIT community, proactively engaged with industry, government, academia, foundations, philanthropists and the public.”

Vice President for Research Maria Zuber provides general oversight of the plan's implementation, which involves many offices, programs, initiatives, and labs at MIT. She also chairs the Climate Action Advisory Committee (CAAC), which provides advice and recommendations to help ensure the plan’s success. You can find an overview of the CAAC here.

The 2017-2018 members of the CAAC are listed below.

• Maria Zuber, Committee Chair

  Vice President for Research
  E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences 

• Tom Kiley, Committee Staff

  Senior Advisor, Office of the Vice President for Research

• Bruce Anderson

  Member, MIT Corporation

• Bob Armstrong

  Director, MIT Energy Initiative
  Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering

• Kerry Bowie

  Alum (’94, MBA ’06)

• Patricia Callahan

  Member, MIT Corporation

• Rachel Carr

  Pappalardo Fellow, Department of Physics

• David Chandler

  Writer, MIT News Office

• John Fernández

  Director, Environmental Solutions Initiative
  Professor, Department of Architecture

• Charlene Kabcenell

  Member, MIT Corporation

• Chris Knittel

  Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
  William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics, Sloan School of Management 

• Michelle Lauer

  Undergraduate student, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

• Evan Lieberman

  Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa, Department of Political Science

• Tse Yang Lim

  Graduate student, Sloan School of Management

• Nina Lytton

  MIT Alum (SM ’84)

• Tom Malone

  Founding Director, Center for Collective Intelligence
  Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management

• Julie Newman

  Director, Office of Sustainability

• Ron Prinn

  Director, Center for Global Change Science
  Co-Director, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
  TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences 

• John Reilly

  Co-Director, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
  Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management

• Kate Reynolds

  Senior Associate Director, Office of Foundation Relations

• Christina Rudzinski

  Scientist, Lincoln Laboratory

• John Sterman

  Faculty Director, Sloan Sustainability Initiative
  Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management
  Director, MIT System Dynamics Group

• Irmak Turan

  Graduate student, Department of Architecture

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