Representatives from nearly 200 countries, including a delegation from MIT, met in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt at the COP27 UN climate change conference to negotiate a new international climate agreement.
MIT faculty from the School of Science and the School of Architecture and Planning lead one of the Climate Grand Challenges flagship projects, “Preparing for a new world of weather and climate extremes.”
Faculty from three finalist teams in the MIT Climate Grand Challenges discuss strategies for achieving impact in hard-to-abate sectors, from long-distance transportation and building construction to textile manufacturing and chemical refining.
Faculty from three finalist teams in the MIT Climate Grand Challenges explain how they are drawing upon geological, biological, chemical, and oceanic processes to develop game-changing techniques for carbon removal, management, and storage.
In a Climate Grand Challenge proposal called the Advanced Carbon Mineralization Initiative, MIT Assistant Professor Matej Pec studies different ways that can make rock mineralization more effective at capturing carbon and storing it underground.