Campus Climate Action Ambassadors
The Campus Climate Action Ambassadors program empowers MIT staff, faculty, and students to lead sustainability and climate action efforts within their departments, labs, centers, and student groups. Ambassadors receive training, resources, and support from the MIT Office of Sustainability to integrate climate action into their everyday work and academic roles.
Whether it’s improving lab energy use, reducing waste, supporting reuse, or embedding sustainability into job goals or research, Ambassadors help make every role at MIT a climate role. Ambassadors also join a growing network of peers across campus who are committed to building a more sustainable and resilient MIT.
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MIT Campus Climate Action Workshop
This engaging and interactive workshop is led by the MIT Office of Sustainability (MITOS), in collaboration with the EHS Safe and Sustainable Labs program and VPF Strategic Sourcing. Tailored for MIT employees in your DLCI, this workshop explores MIT’s climate commitments, including the ambitious Net-Zero 2026 goal and departmental initiatives supporting energy efficiency, sustainable practices, and climate resiliency. You will also have the chance to share your efforts, ideas, and challenges, and discover how you can contribute to reducing emissions and fostering a more sustainable campus.
This staff-focused initiative ran from 2023 to 2024 and aimed to support a more sustainable MIT by fostering collaboration and sharing best practices across departments. The program encouraged staff to take meaningful individual actions and work collectively toward reducing MIT’s climate impact. The email archive below contains still-relevant tips, tools, and inspiration for embedding sustainability into your everyday work.
Fast Forward: MIT's Climate Action Plan for the Decade encourages all departments, labs, and centers to prepare and implement their own carbon footprint reduction and sustainability plans.
Many units are already taking meaningful action on climate and sustainability. For units at early stages in the planning process, this program offers guidance and a framework for identifying goals, strategies, and actions aligned with MIT’s commitments, and paths to achieving them. As we implement this program and assess how it is working, we expect to learn from each other and uncover new ideas.
Planning Resources
Planning Framework: Six Steps to Creating a Local Plan
Template for Local Action Plan
Worksheet for Action
Template for Tracking Progress