November 22, 2024
MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI) Hosts Global Conference on Mine Waste

The MIT Global Summit on Mine Tailings Innovation focused on strategies to reduce, reuse, and reimagine tailings, highlighting the need for collaboration across sectors.


November 14, 2024
The MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative’s (ESI’s) Primer of COP16

The conference focused on stopping global biodiversity loss and advancing the 23 goals of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF).


October 21, 2024
Governing Critical Mineral Mining and the Clean Energy Transition

Earlier this month, Program Scientist Scott Odell, head of the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative's Mining and Circular Economy program, spoke on a panel at Stockholm University titled "Governing Critical Raw Materials and the Energy Transition: Challenges for Socio-Environmental Sustainability."


October 2, 2024
Betting on Climate Solutions at Climate Week NYC 2024

Here, research program director Marcela Angel highlighted the ESI’s Big Climate Bet to create participatory monitoring systems that increase community resilience against predictable climate risks, such as landslides, in Latin America.    


September 20, 2024
Three Questions with Marco Herndon on Bridging Technology and Urban Planning for Natural Climate Solutions

With a background in the tech space, Marco will now focus on the Natural Climate Solution's (NCS) partnerships with organizations in Latin America at the intersection of climate change, technology, and environmental planning.


August 22, 2024
MIT’s Climate Change Engagement Program To Join the Institute’s Climate HQ

The MIT Climate Change Engagement Program’s new home, Climate HQ, will leverage Institute-wide expertise and advance global climate solutions.


July 10, 2024
Three Questions on Nature-Based Climate Solutions With ESI Research Affiliate Martin Camilo Pérez Lara

Martin will play an active role in facilitating discussions with various actors in the carbon market chain to identify how and where improvements can be implemented so that quality and social justice are centered.


May 31, 2024
Celebrating the Challenge: The ESI at 10 Years

ESI director John E. Fernández reflects upon the 10 year anniversary of the ESI.


April 23, 2024
Concluding the ESI’S Two-Year Pilot Project in Mocoa, Colombia

After a devastating landslide in 2017, DECCA (Drones for Equitable Climate Change Adaptation) aimed to develop a community-based planning and participatory risk management model with the development of technological tools for landslide monitoring.


April 17, 2024
How Do You Bridge Divides in Climate Change Conversations? A Q+A with Ben Stillerman, Deb Roy, and Laur Hesse Fisher

This Earth Month, the ESI is co-hosting a film screening and discussion about climate change, belief, and talking with people you don't agree with.


March 25, 2024
A Refreshed MIT Climate Primer to Better Serve Students, Educators, and the “Climate Curious”

The first major changes to the Climate Science, Risk & Solutions page have been made this month.


March 13, 2024
The ESI’s Angélica Mayolo Invited to Provide Technical Support as City Advisor for the Biodiversity COP (COP 16) in Cali, Colombia

Mayolo, who is an MIT MLK Fellow and a consultant for the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative leading the Afro-Interamerican Forum on Climate Change, seeks to "make the region the protagonist of the COP."

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