As of June 2025, the work of the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative has been resettled across the Institute.

For more information on Natural Climate Solutions, Cities and Climate, and Arts and Climate, please keep an eye on this page for a link to a new research group, Environmental Research + Action (ERA): Cities, Nature and AI. It will be situated within the School of Architecture and Planning.

For more information on Climate Education and Mining and the Circular Economy, please visit The Climate Project at MIT.

Climate Justice will be tended to by Chris Rabe.

Additional insights about the ESI’s transition can be found in an article about The Legacy of the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative.

Thank you for supporting the ESI and a more sustainable future.

The Environmental Solutions Initiative is MIT’s institute-wide effort to address climate change and other environmental challenges of global import, through multidisciplinary research, education, and engagement.

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The Legacy of the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative.

The MIT ESI will be dissolving at the end of June, but its research and education efforts will soon be redistributed across the Institute.

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