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Welcome to the Sustainability Initiative

The MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative is a leading voice in sustainable business and policy, with a mission to provide the best education, apply academic rigor to real world problems, and empower leaders everywhere to take action so humans and nature can thrive for generations to come.

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MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative

Six Takeaways from ClimateCAP 2026

Hosted by MIT Sloan and run by run by the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, the event was the largest (and first-ever carbon-neutral!) ClimateCAP MBA Summit, bringing together nearly 400 MBA students from more than 45 business schools. Over the weekend, what stood out most wasn’t any single idea or solution, but the convergence of many.

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Educational offerings for MIT students

We provide a variety of curricular and co-curricular offerings for graduate students seeking to embed sustainability into their MIT experience:

Career & network building events
Sustainability internships
Curated sustainability courses
Sustainability Certificate

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Executive Education

For executives interested in gaining a new perspective on sustainability from leading MIT Sloan faculty experts, explore our executive education offerings.

For individuals: Our “Business Sustainability Strategy” course focuses on navigating trade-offs and tensions surrounding the topic of sustainability successfully, and explores the process of achieving sustainability through innovation and behavioral change.

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For organizations: A custom-built sustainability program can help your organization enhance operational efficiency, foster innovation, and thrive in an increasingly sustainability-focused marketplace, while delivering measurable ROI.

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Whether it’s through a more effective way to measure environmental, social, and governance performance, new ways of investing sustainably, or interactive climate simulations – our faculty and researchers are leveraging their academic rigor to solve real-world problems through our three research projects: