Climate Action

MIT Sloan is at the intersection of business and climate change.

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Tracking emissions to help companies reduce their environmental footprint

Context Labs, led by Dan Harple SM ’13, uses AI-enabled data analytics and verification to help companies measure their true greenhouse emissions and document reductions.

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The Climate Project at MIT

Our goal is to become one of the world’s most prolific and collaborative sources of technological, behavioral, and policy solutions for the global climate challenge. We'll know we have succeeded only if, in 10 years, we have changed the expected trajectory of global climate outcomes for the better.

Executive Education

Business Sustainability Strategy

This short course explores the process of achieving sustainability through innovation and behavioral change and helps leaders manage sustainability goals without compromising profits.

One Day with David Brown, Army Veteran and MBA '25

In the final year of his MBA, Brown has co-founded a climate tech company—Helix Carbon—with Dr. Ariel Furst, an MIT associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and Evan Haas, MBA '24, SM '24. Their goal: erase the footprint of tough-to-carbonize industries

3 things to know about the next 4 years of US energy

Climate policy expert Christopher Knittel handicaps the likelihood of tariffs, cuts to IRA subsidies, and a carbon tax under the new administration.

What business needs to know about carbon border adjustments

The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is “the thing that has made me most optimistic,” says MIT Sloan climate economist Catherine Wolfram.

Climate change and machine learning — the good, bad, and unknown

Machine learning can drive climate action initiatives, but its widespread use could have negative implications, according to Climate Change AI’s Priya Donti.

Getting Strategic About Sustainability

When it comes to sustainability, many companies try to tackle too many issues at once. The result? Very little meaningful impact.

Ideas

Three MIT startups taking on the global waste challenge

These alumni entrepreneurs are applying MIT know-how to keep goods out of landfills, reduce energy costs in recycling, and provide safe sanitation.

The climate continues to change, and it’s changed pretty dramatically in the last 15 years. I don’t think we should draw too many conclusions about what’s possible.

Catherine Wolfram

Professor, Applied Economics, MIT Sloan, and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the U.S. Treasury

Hope isn’t naïve optimism—the belief that some technological breakthrough will save us. It's the belief that what we do matters. That by working together, we can create a better world.

John Sterman

Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management

One of the gaps the MIT Climate Policy Center seeks to fill is being the connective tissue across all of these different centers to understand what the policy implications are and to understand how everything fits together.

Christopher Knittel

Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability, the George P. Shultz Professor , and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management

As an entrepreneur, I think: How am I making my community better? How am I helping to create employment? I was looking for a school with a well-developed, holistic sustainability program.

Victoria Eugenia Tostado Bringas

SFMBA ’24

MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative

The MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative is committed to advancing systems change for an equitable and sustainable world.

MIT Climate Policy Center

The MIT Climate Policy Center serves as MIT's "front door" for local, state, federal, and international climate policymakers. Our mission is to serve as a trusted, non-partisan resource for policymakers who seek to advance evidence-based climate policy in the next decade.

MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research

CEEPR promotes rigorous, objective research for improved decision making in government and the private sector, and secures the relevance of its work through close cooperation with industry partners from around the globe.

MIT Energy Initiative

MITEI connects researchers from across MIT and facilitates collaborations with industry, nonprofits, and government to speed and scale commercialization of no- and low-carbon technologies.

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

The purpose of CS3 is to advance knowledge and computational capabilities in the field of sustainability science, and support decision-makers in government, industry and civil society to achieve sustainability goals.

MIT Climate Portal

The MIT Climate Portal is an online home for timely, science-based information about the causes and consequences of climate change – and what can be done to address it.