MIT Sloan and Climate Strategy
At the intersection of business and climate strategy, the MIT Sloan School of Management is researching, developing, deploying, and scaling up innovative solutions to change the planet's climate trajectory.
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Climate strategy for leaders
A new report from MIT Sloan collects three resources to support long-term decision making: A climate solutions simulator, a guide to systemic investing, and a white paper on sustainable building.
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Over 1,000 MIT students inspired to work toward climate solutions
Incoming students tested the climate simulation tool En-ROADS with the goal of creating “a healthier, safer, more prosperous, and more sustainable world.”
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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.
At the MIT Sloan School of Management, we’re driving real-world climate impact through cutting‑edge research, entrepreneurial innovation, and evidence‑based policy leadership.
Climate Strategy at MIT Sloan
Explore insights from MIT Sloan experts, discover climate and sustainability initiatives across MIT, and learn how MIT Sloan prepares global business leaders to accelerate decarbonization, scale climate solutions, and shape a more resilient, equitable global economy.
Why climate and energy entrepreneurs need their own playbook
Climate ventures are capital-intensive, take years to scale, and face unique hurdles. Standard advice doesn't always apply. MIT experts explain why these businesses need their own framework.
$900 a year: That's how much climate change costs the average US household
Climate change costs include higher home insurance bills, disaster recovery costs in the form of higher taxes and health damages from wildfire smoke and extreme weather. "In short, climate inaction isn’t just an environmental failure; it acts like a tax on every American household," write Kimberly Clausing, Christopher Knittel and Catherine Wolfram.
A sustainability-focused venture that aims to give back to the community
MIT Sloan student and entrepreneur Alecia Asiamigbe is leading a more resilient future with her renewable energy company.
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
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Climate Centers and Initiatives
Positioned at the intersection of technology and management, MIT Sloan is a meeting place for leading thinkers and researchers; the school's numerous climate centers and initiatives provide a collaborative environment for faculty, students, private sector partners, and public policy experts to share research and knowledge and to drive real-world climate impact.
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.
Working Definitions: Climate Strategy
MIT Sloan's Working Definitions explore the words and phrases behind emerging management ideas.
