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Climate Action Advisory Committee, 2017-2018

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By MIT Climate Action
Posted Sep 24, 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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If you are interested in more information about MIT Climate Action, please contact us at climate.action@mit.edu

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