MIT Campus
Climate Change Impacts
MIT alumni community in the Boston area
Out of over 170,000 MIT alumni in total, 12,575 live within 50 mile radius of Boston, and 22,576 live in the state of Massachusetts. These alumni like other residents are affected by the direct impacts of climate change in the area. Among the impacts are: (1) air pollution from wildfires promoted by widespread droughts in North America which have many serious health impacts on outdoor workers, the elderly and immunocompromised, and children; and (2) regular flooding from both more intense storms and progressive sea level rise.
For more information, see Cambridge's Sustainability Dashboard and Boston's Climate Action Plan, and tabs below for resources, statements and actions from MIT and MACA.

The goals of the Climate Project include:
-Decarbonize energy and industry with affordable low-emissions electricity and fuels and technological and policy innovations.
-"Restore" the atmosphere while protecting the land and oceans and ecosystems by removing, managing, and storing greenhouse gases.
-Empower frontline communities and support the world’s most vulnerable populations with technologies, finance, and policies for relief and resilience.
-Build and adapt healthy, resilient cities.
-Invent policy approaches and new institutions and incentives for rapid scaling and decision support tools.
-Develop unconventional solutions to climate change.
This plan proposes that the campus:
-Go as far as we can, as fast as we can, with the tools and methods we have now.
-Invest in, invent, and develop new tools and promote the new institutions and policies needed to deploy them rapidly, wisely, and equitably.
-Educate and empower the next generation, who are inheriting this problem and must ultimately solve it.
VPR Maria Zuber Update on MIT's Climate Action Plan - Spring 2019
- President Rafael Reif Boston Globe OpEd - April 2020
- MIT Alumni Leadership Conference Climate Change Panel - September 2020
- MIT Architecture and Planning Climate Plan - January 2021
- MIT Sustainability Initiative
- MIT Energy Initiative
- MIT Climate Portal