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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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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.
As MIT’s Fast Forward Climate Plan recognizes, “the world will not solve the climate problem without solving the intertwined problems of equity and economic transition.” We are working strategically to develop a deep understanding of the racial injustices that contribute to the unequal distribution of environmental costs, benefits, and conditions in communities, as well as advance an inclusive process that centers marginalized groups who are often the most impacted by climate change.
Through learning and collaboration, we are working with partners across the Institute, the Boston area, and beyond to develop actionable strategies that eliminate inequities and advance a healthy, just MIT community. The framework below outlines a draft strategy for MIT—organized around the principles of empowerment, partnerships, and action—that are meant to build on each other while happening simultaneously.
Building the internal capacity of MIT and its partners in VPCSS to integrate justice and equity into climate-related decision-making
Developing intentional and reciprocal relationships with communities around justice issues
Collaborating with communities to achieve justice, with possible project areas to include energy, pollution reduction, climate resilience, carbon offset, workforce development, and food security efforts.
The Living Climate Futures initiative brought front-line climate and environmental justice partners from across the country into the classroom and onto campus, culminating in a symposium in 2022.
Learn more about MIT’s plan to mobilize our strengths to address the accelerating climate crisis.
