Climate resiliency and adaptation roadmap

MIT’s work toward climate resiliency is guided by MIT’s Climate Resiliency and Adaptation Roadmap, published in 2025.

 

This Roadmap introduces four Goals containing 18 strategies that will enable the MIT campus to continue to fulfill its mission amidst disruption from climate-driven hazards such as extreme precipitation, sea level rise with storm surge; and excessive and prolonged heat risks; risks which are becoming more frequent and extreme in a changing climate. This Roadmap builds on MIT’s climate resiliency and adaptation progress since 2015 and draws from current best available science and practice for informing a five (5) year (2025-2029) Roadmap.  

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This roadmap is intended to be revised and updated as MIT’s understanding of the impact of a changing climate and how to adapt evolves.   Re-evaluation will also enable continued resilience based on the effectiveness of adaptation strategies; community capacities; technological advances; and progression of implementation plans. This figure (below) diagrams the iterative process of Roadmap re-evaluation that can enable most strategic and impactful outcomes.

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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.