Skip to main content
Climate
Search

Main navigation

  • Climate 101
    • What We Know
    • What Can Be Done
    • Climate Primer
  • Explore
    • Podcast
    • Explainers
    • Climate Questions
    • For Educators
  • MIT Action
    • News
    • Events
    • Resources
  • Search
MIT

Main navigation

  • Climate 101
    • What We Know
    • What Can Be Done
    • Climate Primer
  • Explore
    • Podcast
    • Explainers
    • Climate Questions
    • For Educators
  • MIT Action
    • News
    • Events
    • Resources
  • Search
PostDecember 9, 2020

Why climate change is getting the attention of world’s wealthy investors

Our Climate Pathway's Project is identifying major climate pathways in the investment world. 

Michael Sonnenfeldt, the entrepreneur who heads Tiger 21, an investment club for the ultra-wealthy, has spent a lot of time over the years at his alma mater, working with the MIT Sloan Management School and climate modelers on the Climate Pathways project, which he helped found. One of its primary goals is to demonstrate to bipartisan elected officials and business leaders what climate data means in terms of real-life consequences.

After the past few years working with the MIT climate project, and showing the data to many elected officials on both sides of the aisle, Sonnenfeldt said it became clear the models were not just showing climatology, but identifying where major opportunity sets exist in the investment world. “It became clear to me, there are real opportunity sets around climate, whether you believe in it or not.”

Read the full article on CNBC here
by MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative
Topics
Government & Policy
Energy
Finance & Economics

Related Posts

PostMarch 4, 2026

Renewables and Electricity Affordability: Untangling Correlation from Causa...

MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
People reviewing their electricity bills
PostMarch 2, 2026

Advancing more efficient, accurate and reliable climate emulators

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
MIT CS3-affiliated Aerospace Computational Engineering PhD student Chris Womack is working to advance more efficient, accurate, and reliable climate emulators. (Source: Earthday.org)
PostMarch 2, 2026

Coping with catastrophe

MIT News
Miho Mazereeuw is the author of the new book, “Design Before Disaster: Japan’s Culture of Preparedness,” published by the University of Virginia Press.
PostFebruary 26, 2026

New method could increase LLM training efficiency

MIT News
A new method could increase the training efficiency of large language models: By leveraging idle computing time, it can double the speed of model training while preserving accuracy.

MIT Climate Knowledge in Your Inbox

 
 

MIT Groups Log In

Log In

Footer

  • About
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Accessibility
  • Contact
MIT Climate Project
MIT
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • YouTube
  • Simplecast
Communicator Award Winner
Communicator Award Winner