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Learn more about MIT's climate work
The challenges of sustainability are both local and global. Creating transformative solutions requires deep collaboration among community leaders and members on campus, city and global scales.
Planning for a climate-resilient MIT involves understanding what risks and disruptions may impact the campus in order to prepare the campus community for the impacts of climate change, including more frequent and extreme flooding and heat.
MIT strives to be a community that continues to fulfill the mission of the Institute and thrives in the face of disruptions from intensifying climate risks, including more frequent and extreme flooding and heat. MIT’s work toward climate resiliency is guided by MIT’s Climate Resiliency and Adaptation Roadmap, published in 2025.
We are working to achieve our climate resiliency goals through the individual and collective efforts of many both on campus and in our surrounding cities, such as:
This is a collaboration of faculty; engineering and facility staff; risk, insurance, and climate science experts; emergency management; and students.
Learn more about the work of the MIT Climate Resiliency Committee:
This joint effort between MIT and the City of Cambridge harmonizes data, research activities, and modeling tools that can enable climate resilient planning across campus and city shared boundaries.
This joint effort between MIT and the City of Cambridge seeks to strengthen a community of practice for how to monitor, understand, communicate and prepare for increasing heat risk.
Two of MIT's most recently completed buildings, the Schwarzman College of Computing and Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building tested their building designs in the MIT campus flood risk model to confirm that the designs reduced risks of future floods. The buildings were both designed to be resilient to flood risks associated with a changing climate.
The Schwarzman College of Compting was designed to elevate the building entry level above the projected flood risk enabling an attractive rising entrance from the street.
Designers for the Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building developed a landscape that promotes absorption and infiltration of stormwater. This landscape helped to eliminate projected flood risks to the building and enabled more optimal use of space in the building
The dashboard seeks to translate the science of local climate risks into maps and graphics that can raise awareness and inform operational and strategic decision-making about campus-wide planning, capital renewal, new capital projects, and community preparedness.
