What is Campus Climate Action?
MIT’s climate action plan calls on the community to mobilize its strengths in working to address the climate crisis—centering science, research, and collaboration as key tools to mitigate and reduce our impact.
MIT is focused on both new research and applied technologies to support global efforts and take action to meet goals on MIT's campus.
We call the work behind these campus efforts “Campus Climate Action” and use the phrase and corresponding wordmark to highlight stories of how MIT researchers, staff, faculty, and students are working together in ways big and small to make our campus more sustainable while developing and applying solutions that can be used far beyond MIT’s campus.
On this page, you’ll find a collection of features, news stories, videos, and more that fit into our Campus Climate Action framework. Are you working on a project that you feel should be featured here? Let us know.
Decarbonizing MIT
Teams across MIT are working to decarbonize campus operations. To meet MIT’s goal of decarbonization by 2050, this work needs to reach spaces, systems, policies, and infrastructure in every corner of MIT. In this video, we highlight just a sampling of that work to showcase how these efforts are transforming MIT with the support of staff, students, faculty, and researchers. Watch below.
Connecting the Dots
Meeting MIT's climate goals take collaboration across roles, departments, and discipline. Community members regularly "connect the dots" between research and operations to bring new ideas to life at MIT. The Connecting the Dots series features the people and connections across this work.
Decarbonizing the Campus Video Series
With a goal to decarbonize the MIT campus by 2050, the Institute must look at "new ideas, transformed into practical solutions, in record time." To engage the MIT community in exploring some of these key solutions, MITOS launched the Campus Climate Action Speakers series to hear from researchers, experts, and practitioners working with the decarbonization technologies of today and tomorrow.
The People Behind the Climate Action Plan
People across the Institute help to bring MIT's climate plans to action. These people serve in diverse roles across MIT, but all support efforts to reach our shared goals around climate. Our ongoing series "Behind the Climate Action Plan highlights a small sampling of the many people and working to meet our climate goals. Explore past features below.
- You Lin, MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
- Siobhan Carr, Facilities Engineering
- Jim Doughty, Environment, Health, and Safety
- Heather Paxson, Professor and Associate Dean of Anthropology
- Jessica Parks, Campus Construction
- Emma Homstad, Office of the Vice President for Finance
- Randa Ghattas, Campus Construction
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