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.
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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
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Bruce Anderson
Member, MIT Corporation
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Bob Armstrong
Director, MIT Energy Initiative
Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering -
Kerry Bowie
Alum (’94, MBA ’06)
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Patricia Callahan
Member, MIT Corporation
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Rachel Carr
Pappalardo Fellow, Department of Physics
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David Chandler
Writer, MIT News Office
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John Fernández
Director, Environmental Solutions Initiative
Professor, Department of Architecture -
Charlene Kabcenell
Member, MIT Corporation
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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
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Evan Lieberman
Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa, Department of Political Science
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Tse Yang Lim
Graduate student, Sloan School of Management
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Nina Lytton
MIT Alum (SM ’84)
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Tom Malone
Founding Director, Center for Collective Intelligence
Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management -
Julie Newman
Director, Office of Sustainability
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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
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Christina Rudzinski
Scientist, Lincoln Laboratory
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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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