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AI-enhanced visuals propel sustainable policies

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Skeptics are more likely to approve of sustainable infrastructure when shown AI-enhanced images of how green cityscapes might look, research finds.

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

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John Sterman | Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
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.

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Climate Research from MIT Sloan

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Our People, Our Impact

Our students and alumni bring climate solutions from the classroom into the world.

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Manuela Zoninsein

Manuela Zoninsein

EMBA '20, Sustainability Certificate

Founder +CEO, Kadeya

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Ruben

Rubén Lozano Aguilera

MBA '13

Senior Product Manager, Google Maps

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Weixiang

Weixiang Wang

Sloan Fellows MBA '18

Chief Sustainability Officer Ministry of Sustainability & Environment, Singapore

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Trace Allen

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    MBA/MCP '24
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Alexa Katz

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    MBA '24
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Amar Dayal

Amar Dayal

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    MBA '24
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Andres

Andrés Bisonó León

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    MBA '23 | Legatum Fellow | PKG IAP Fellow
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Kaya Thomas

Kaya Thomas

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    LGO '23
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In the News

  • The Hill

    Professor Catherine Wolfram and co-author write: "The entrenched view that the United States will never support a carbon price is misguided. 2025 will be a big year for Congress to tackle longstanding fiscal issues and further climate policy efforts. Before this can happen, politicians need to hear timely arguments backed by up-to-date evidence."

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  • Financial Times

    In new research, professor Roberto Rigobon, research scientist Florian Berg, and co-author used data from analytics firm Clarity AI to assess the carbon emissions of companies that did and didn't have SBTi-approved targets in place. The results were striking. Companies that set SBTi targets, but didn't obtain assurance on their climate reports, performed no better on emissions reduction than non-SBTi signatories.

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  • Fast Company

    "The impact on jobs of the energy transition is not just going to be where oil and natural gas are drilled, it's going to be all the way up and down the value chain of things we make in the U.S.," said professor Christopher Knittel, coauthor of a research paper on the analysis published today.

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  • The Hill

    Professor Christopher Knittel and co-author write: "Our research paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides new economy-wide data on where employment in the United States is most vulnerable to the economic pressures of the energy transition. We find that the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act fails to effectively support many parts of the country where employment is at risk."

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  • CNN

    "The target here is to produce electricity cheaper than coal and gas plants," senior lecturer John Parsons said. These fossil fuel plants are "terribly simple and cheap to run — they're just dirty," he added.

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  • The Boston Globe

    John Sterman, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management with a focus in sustainability, achieved the holy grail of net zero eight years ago. His 1920s Lexington home was due for an update, but instead of just "upgrading and renovating," Sterman decided the "incremental cost of going deeper and doing a retrofit" was the right move.

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The Climate Project at MIT

The goal of the Climate Project at MIT is for MIT to become, within the next decade, 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 succeed only if, in 10 years, we have changed the expected trajectory of global climate outcomes for the better.