Campus Climate Action Forum Community Ideas Overview

At the Campus Climate Action Forum, co-hosted by the Office of Sustainability and the Office of the Vice President for Research, the MIT community gathered to hear an update on Pillar E progress as outlined in A Plan for Action on Climate Change and to share ideas for the next five years of campus-level climate action. 

The event sourced ideas from the MIT community through a plenary session and 12 facilitated breakout rooms, as well as ideas shared live in the event chat and beforehand through a Google Form open to the community regardless of event attendance. Through these channels of engagement, several themes emerged from calls for carbon neutrality, to a desire for more student engagement and more visible markers of climate plan progress, to an increased focus on climate justice and equity, Scope 3 emissions, and greater policy advocacy. 

The eight most common themes sourced from the event are highlighted in this PDF with all themes and ideas shared in the Ideas Appendix.
 

screenshot of PDF text report