Departments, Labs, Centers + Programs

MIT administrative offices, academia, research centers and initiatives forwarding climate change science, solutions and action. Click on a group's profile below to get a snapshot of their work on climate change.

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MIT Climate Action

Platform for MIT’s Plan for Action on Climate Change and related activities by the Office of the Vice President for Research

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

J-PAL works to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence.

Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS)

An Institute-wide effort to bring MIT’s unique strengths to bear on issues of water and food insecurity

A center that is taking action and inspiring reflection on climate change through art

MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

A focal point for research on energy and environmental policy at MIT

MIT Center for Global Change Science

Improving our ability to accurately predict changes in the global environment.

MIT Center for Real Estate

CRE investigates the real estate practice and transaction from initial concept to market realization.

MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics

Creating supply chain innovation through research, outreach, and education at MIT and beyond.

Harnessing the collective intelligence of thousands of people from all around the world to address complex societal problems, starting with global climate change

MIT Climate Nucleus

The faculty committee that has broad responsibility for the management and implementation of Fast Forward, MIT's Climate Action Plan.

MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium

A new kind of academia industry collaboration, working together to accelerate the implementation of large-scale, real-world solutions, across sectors, to meet global climate and sustainability challenges.

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

Developing breakthroughs for durable and sustainable homes, buildings, and infrastructure.

Designing for a more equitable world.

An annual MIT hackathon on climate change

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative

Mobilizing the substantial scientific, engineering, policy, and design capacity of MIT to create solutions to today’s environmental challenges

MIT Energy Initiative

MIT’s hub for energy research, education, and outreach

MIT Industrial Liaison Program

MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) is industry’s most comprehensive portal to MIT, enabling companies worldwide to harness MIT resources to address current challenges and to anticipate future needs.

MIT Innovation Initiative

A team at MIT tasked to develop and strengthen the innovation & entrepreneurial community at MIT and beyond

MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)

MISTI matches MIT students with tailored internships, research and teaching opportunities abroad. MISTI also support international faculty collaborations.

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

Advancing a sustainable, prosperous world through global and regional change projections that provide a scientific foundation for strategic investment, policy-making and other critical decisions.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Lincoln Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center that prototypes advanced technologies to meet national security needs.

Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

We seek to advance knowledge and educate students in innovation-driven entrepreneurship that will best serve the world in the 21st century by providing proven frameworks, courses, programs, facilities, and mentorship.

News from on campus and around the world

MIT Office of Sustainability

Creating a next generation sustainable campus

A free and open online collection of material from thousands of MIT courses

MIT Open Learning

Transforming teaching and learning at MIT and around the world

The epicenter of public service initiatives at MIT

Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Exploring the potential of plasma science to find innovative solutions to environmental problems, with a focus on accelerating the pace of fusion energy development.

A Federal-Institute partnership promoting the conservation and sustainable development of coastal and marine resources

MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative

An MIT Sloan initiative working to build a more just and equitable future through the joint efforts of students, faculty, alumni, researchers, and collaborators in business, government, NGO's.

A marketplace for social impact innovation with a mission to solve world challenges.

MIT Technology Review

Terrascope is a learning community for first-year students to solve complex, real-world sustainability-related problems starting in their first semester at MIT.

TILclimate Podcast

Podcast series by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative that breaks down climate change topics for nonscientists.

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

MIT's School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, contributing to increased planetary health via research that informs better public policy, and by advancing potential solutions

MIT Department of Chemical Engineering

MIT ChemE offers many opportunities to generate creative and transformative solutions to respond to environmental and sustainability challenges.

MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering

MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is creating bold solutions for sustainability across scales

MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Department where the turbulent oceans and atmosphere, the inaccessible depths of the inner Earth, distant planets, and the origins of life all come together under one intellectual roof.

Department of Urban Studies and Planning MIT

Department specializing in global sustainable transportation, urbanization, communication, development and social interaction

MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering - DMSE

Department focused on understanding the creation, composition, structure, properties, and performance of materials – and to derive new, effective, and sustainable alternatives.

MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Advancing the frontiers of nuclear science and engineering for the benefit of society and the environment

The MIT Libraries is an essential access point for climate and sustainability research at the Institute and beyond.

MIT Safe & Sustainable Labs (S2L) Program

An initiative to promote a safe and sustainable lab environment to align with MIT’s Climate Action Plan.

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