Announcing: The Climate Project at MIT
On February 8, 2024, MIT President Sally Kornbluth announced the Climate Project at MIT, an ambitious new model of accelerated, university-led innovation. Its three-part structure — consisting of the Climate Missions, the Climate Frontier projects, and the Climate HQ — is designed to marshal the Institute’s talent and resources to research, develop, deploy, and scale up serious solutions to help change the planet’s climate trajectory.
Fast Forward: MIT's Climate Action Plan for the Decade
MIT’s multifaceted decade-long plan to act on climate change.
Departments, Labs, Centers + Programs
MIT academia, research centers, administrative offices, and initiatives doing work related to climate change.
Student + Alumni Groups
Groups led by MIT students and alumni focused on climate change and sustainability.
Newsletters
To get a snapshot of the climate change, environment & sustainability work happening across the Institute, you can sign up for these newsletters:
- MIT Climate Portal newsletter provides overviews of critical climate change topics directly from MIT experts and a digest of MIT climate research.
- MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative newsletter gives a weekly overview of MIT environmental events and opportunities.
- MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative newsletter covers environmental events, news, and opportunities with a focus on MIT's business school.
- MIT Energy Initiative newsletter features low-carbon energy research, events, and news.
Events at MIT
Climate change and sustainability events happening across campus, via MIT Events.
Upcoming Events
Subjects + Open Learning
- Search MIT undergraduate subjects on environment & sustainability
- See all MIT undergraduate majors, minors & concentrations on environment and sustainability
- MITx offers online courses for anyone
- Extend your learning with MIT Open Courseware's materials on Energy and Environment
For Educators
- TILclimate educator guides: teach climate through MIT's climate change podcast
- CATE: an interdisciplinary high school climate curriculum
- MIT Blossoms: math and science video lessons for high school classes
- MIT Sloan: simulation games on energy start-ups, climate policy, and others
- MIT-Lemelson: creative applications of green chemistry in sustainability and bioplastics
- MIT Open Courseware: college-level teaching materials on Energy and Environment
- SCALES: resources for infusing sustainability and climate change into lessons
Games & Competitions
- Explore climate solutions through MIT Sloan Sustainability & Climate Interactive simulators and role-playing games
- Enter global challenge competitions hosted by MIT's Solve
- Compete in the world's largest competition for student-led cleantech startups
- Play the environmental policy negotiations game by MIT professor Noelle Selin