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• Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

  Through J-PAL's King Climate Action Initiative, J-PAL innovates, tests, and scales high-impact solutions at the nexus of climate change and poverty alleviation with governments, NGOs, donors, and companies worldwide.

• Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS)

  J-WAFS helps meet the needs of a rapidly changing planet by catalyzing research, innovation, and technology to improve access to safe and resilient supplies of water and food.

• Building Technology Program

  The Building Technology Program includes students, faculty, and staff working on design concepts and technologies that contribute to a more humane and sustainable built world.

• Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEPR)

  CEEPR is a focal point for research on energy and environmental policy, and promotes rigorous, objective research for improved decision-making in government and the private sector.

• Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy (CS3)

  CS3 research aims to improve understanding of sustainability challenges and help decision‑makers address global change, enhancing well‑being for current and future generations.

• D-Lab

  MIT D-Lab works with people around the world to develop and advance collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges.

• Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI)

  ESI is MIT’s campus-wide effort to mobilize the substantial scientific, engineering, policy, and design capacity of our community to contribute to addressing climate change and other environmental challenges of global import.

• MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium

  MCSC is an academia-industry collaboration, working to accelerate the implementation of large-scale, real-world solutions to help meet global climate and sustainability challenges.

• MIT Climate Nucleus

  The Climate Nucleus is a faculty committee that has broad responsibility for the management and implementation of Fast Forward: MIT’s Climate Action Plan for the Decade.

• MIT Climate Policy Center

  The MIT Climate Policy Center serves as a non-partisan resource for policymakers who wish to advance evidence-based climate policy to help inform and support local, state, national, and international policymakers.

• MIT Climate Portal

  The portal offers educational information about climate change directly from MIT experts.

• MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)

  MITEI connects researchers from across MIT and facilitates collaborations with industry, nonprofits, and government to speed and scale commercialization of no- and low-carbon technologies.

• MIT Sea Grant

  MIT Sea Grant is one of 34 university-based Sea Grant programs, encouraging local coastal and ocean stewardship and building collaborative infrastructures with academic, industry, government, and non-governmental partners.

• MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative

  This group works to be a leading voice in sustainable business and policy, with a mission to provide the best education and apply academic rigor to real-world problems.

• MIT Solve

  MIT Solve's climate work selects and supports exceptional and diverse tech solutions from anywhere in the world that reduce emissions at scale or help communities adapt while reducing inequities and vulnerabilities.

• Office of Sustainability

  The mission of the Office of Sustainability is to transform MIT into a replicable model—one that generates just, equitable, applicable, and scalable solutions for responding to the unprecedented challenges of a changing planet.

• Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC)

  Scientists at the PSFC are working to harness fusion energy on Earth, with the goal of designing power plants that will emit zero carbon, are safe, and incredibly power-dense.

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