MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
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Our research improves understanding of sustainability challenges and helps decision‑makers address global change, enhancing well‑being for current and future generations.
Website: https://cs3.mit.edu/
Website: https://cs3.mit.edu/
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MIT School of Science launches Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
MIT School of Science launches MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy with Noelle Selin as the inaugural faculty director. The center combines the Joint Program on the Science and Policy o...
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On July 1, 2024, the MIT School of Science launched the Center for Sustainability Science & Strategy, which aims to improve understanding of #sustainability challenges & thereby provide actionable knowledge & insight to inform strategies for improving human well-being. bit.ly/3SBOg84
MIT CS3 Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev shares his expertise on the world's #energy needs and how best to meet them in Climate Reveal, a Boston College Creative Communication Lab podcast that explores specific aspects of the #climate crisis and ongoing work toward solutions. 🧪
Episode 3 - Energy Essentials (plus a bonus asteroid conversation!) | Climate Reveal | Episode 3
In this episode, we break down the energy needs of the world and discuss the best big picture approach to meet those needs moving forward. We talk with Sergey Paltsev, Deputy Director of the MIT Cente...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
WBZ Chief Meteorologist Eric Fisher and MIT CS3 Deputy Director C. Adam Schlosser explore #climate challenges and solutions in Climate Reveal, a new podcast produced by the Boston College Creative Communication Lab that explores specific aspects of the crisis and ongoing work toward solutions. 🧪
Episode 1 - Weather vs Climate | Climate Reveal | Episode 1
In our first episode, we dig into the basics. Joined in studio by WBZ Chief Meteorologist Eric Fisher and Adam Schlosser, Senior Research Scientist and Deputy Director at the MIT Center for Sustainabi...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
WBZ Chief Meteorologist Eric Fisher and MIT CS3 Deputy Director C. Adam Schlosser explore #climate challenges and solutions in Climate Reveal, a new podcast produced by the Boston College Creative Communication Lab that explores specific aspects of the crisis and ongoing work toward solutions. 🧪
With the UN #climate change conference (#cop30) soon to begin in Brazil, the focus of our November e-newsletter is on CS3's recently published work that informs efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change. 🧪 tinyurl.com/48wfe4yd
November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
With the UN #climate change conference (#cop30) soon to begin in Brazil, the focus of our November e-newsletter is on CS3's recently published work that informs efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change. 🧪 tinyurl.com/48wfe4yd
Increasing heat stress is projected to reduce working hours & economic output, according to the 7th Insight in the new report '10 New Insights in Climate Science.' Insight 7, 'Impacts on labor productivity,' is co-authored by MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientist Jennifer Morris. tinyurl.com/r2nxndzn
October 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Increasing heat stress is projected to reduce working hours & economic output, according to the 7th Insight in the new report '10 New Insights in Climate Science.' Insight 7, 'Impacts on labor productivity,' is co-authored by MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientist Jennifer Morris. tinyurl.com/r2nxndzn
Over 20 MIT CS3-affiliated researchers who are first authors of oral and poster presentations, or primary conveners of conference sessions, will explore #sustainability challenges and solutions in 30 presentations/sessions at the 2025 AGU Fall Meeting on Dec. 15-19 in New Orleans/online. #AGU25 🧪
AGU Fall Meeting to focus on the connections that underpin the Earth and space science community
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October 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Over 20 MIT CS3-affiliated researchers who are first authors of oral and poster presentations, or primary conveners of conference sessions, will explore #sustainability challenges and solutions in 30 presentations/sessions at the 2025 AGU Fall Meeting on Dec. 15-19 in New Orleans/online. #AGU25 🧪
Q: When scientists reconstruct ancient climates from ice cores, how do they create an accurate timeline? A: Researchers like MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate David McGee use chemical analyses, computer models, and other tools to date these valuable #climate archives. (MIT Climate Portal) 🧪
When scientists reconstruct ancient climates from ice cores, how do they create an accurate timeline?
Researchers use chemical analyses, computer models, and other tools to date these valuable climate archives.
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October 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Q: When scientists reconstruct ancient climates from ice cores, how do they create an accurate timeline? A: Researchers like MIT Professor/CS3 faculty affiliate David McGee use chemical analyses, computer models, and other tools to date these valuable #climate archives. (MIT Climate Portal) 🧪
A new CS3-led study projects that in Northern #Italy, #agroforestry could significantly enhance the region’s #carbon sequestration capability. The study's findings suggest that this #climate-smart practice may ultimately help reduce #agriculture’s carbon footprint across the globe. 🧪
Combining agriculture with forestry could accelerate climate progress
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October 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A new CS3-led study projects that in Northern #Italy, #agroforestry could significantly enhance the region’s #carbon sequestration capability. The study's findings suggest that this #climate-smart practice may ultimately help reduce #agriculture’s carbon footprint across the globe. 🧪
Presenting the October edition of MIT CS3's e-newsletter. Learn about our latest research on risks to the marine #food web and #carbon cycle, declining costs for renewable #energy systems, #climate models that can sometimes outperform #AI, and more. tinyurl.com/4xn2k7at #sustainability 🧪
MIT CS3 Update - October 2025
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October 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Presenting the October edition of MIT CS3's e-newsletter. Learn about our latest research on risks to the marine #food web and #carbon cycle, declining costs for renewable #energy systems, #climate models that can sometimes outperform #AI, and more. tinyurl.com/4xn2k7at #sustainability 🧪
MIT Prof./CS3 faculty affiliate Elfatih Eltahir highlights how projections from a #climate #resilience early warning system (JO-CREWSnet) involving several CS3 researchers could be used to analyze human systems, ID high-risk hotspots & develop/test effective solutions in frontline communities. 🧪
How South Asia Can Adapt to Extreme Heat
Extreme heat waves could soon make conditions in large parts of our planet extremely dangerous.
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September 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
MIT Prof./CS3 faculty affiliate Elfatih Eltahir highlights how projections from a #climate #resilience early warning system (JO-CREWSnet) involving several CS3 researchers could be used to analyze human systems, ID high-risk hotspots & develop/test effective solutions in frontline communities. 🧪
"[MIT CS3's] John Reilly, a senior lecturer emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management, said that ultimately, proper regulation of corporate #climate commitments — including of durable [carbon dioxide removal] CDR—will fall on governments." - Grist
Report: Big businesses are doing carbon dioxide removal all wrong
The technology is needed to limit global warming. But corporations are supporting it in lieu of emissions reductions.
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September 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"[MIT CS3's] John Reilly, a senior lecturer emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management, said that ultimately, proper regulation of corporate #climate commitments — including of durable [carbon dioxide removal] CDR—will fall on governments." - Grist
The MIT Energy Initiative Future Energy Systems Center is funding ten new research projects to advance the #energy transition. Two of those projects - led by MIT CS3 researchers - will explore viable pathways for expanding clean #electricity and deploying #ammonia as a low-carbon alternative fuel. 🧪
MITEI’s Future Energy Systems Center funds ten new research projects to advance the energy transition
The MIT Energy Initiative’s (MITEI) Future Energy Systems Center will fund ten new projects, with topics ranging from distributed energy resources to electrolyzer design. Several projects relate to th...
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September 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The MIT Energy Initiative Future Energy Systems Center is funding ten new research projects to advance the #energy transition. Two of those projects - led by MIT CS3 researchers - will explore viable pathways for expanding clean #electricity and deploying #ammonia as a low-carbon alternative fuel. 🧪
Higher #ocean temperatures are putting the Earth's most abundant photosynthetic organism at risk: a steep decline in Prochlorococcus could significantly alter the marine #food web and #carbon cycle, according to a study co-authored by MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientist Stephanie Dutkiewicz.🧪
Warming May Threaten Ocean Key Oxygen Producer – CBIOMES
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September 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A major source of #food, #medicine and #livelihoods, the oceans also play a key role in regulating the global #climate. In our September e-newsletter, we highlight recent CS3 research at the nexus of ocean dynamics and human well-being. 🧪
September 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A major source of #food, #medicine and #livelihoods, the oceans also play a key role in regulating the global #climate. In our September e-newsletter, we highlight recent CS3 research at the nexus of ocean dynamics and human well-being. 🧪
Monitoring where atmospheric #CO2 is going in the #oceans is important to understanding the future global #climate; exploring potential marine CO2 removal interventions could yield new climate mitigation options. MIT CS3 Principal Research Scientist Ryan Woosley highlights his work in both areas. 🧪
Researcher Profile: 3 Questions with Ryan Woosley
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September 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A recent study co-authored by MIT CS3 Senior Research Scientist Stephanie Dutkiewicz could lead to better understanding/monitoring of marine microbial dynamics and their impact on #ocean #ecosystems -- and to more accurate #climate models. She explains this work in our latest CS3 Research Insight. 🧪
Research Insight: Why we should include more complex marine microbial diversity and dynamics in climate models
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September 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A recent study co-authored by MIT CS3 Senior Research Scientist Stephanie Dutkiewicz could lead to better understanding/monitoring of marine microbial dynamics and their impact on #ocean #ecosystems -- and to more accurate #climate models. She explains this work in our latest CS3 Research Insight. 🧪
Sometimes smaller is better. A new MIT CS3-led study finds that while simple #climate models are more accurate when estimating regional surface #temperatures, deep-learning #AI approaches can be the best choice for estimating local #rainfall. 🧪
Simpler models can outperform deep learning at climate prediction
Simple climate prediction models can outperform deep-learning approaches when predicting future temperature changes, but deep learning has potential for estimating more complex variables like rainfall...
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August 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Sometimes smaller is better. A new MIT CS3-led study finds that while simple #climate models are more accurate when estimating regional surface #temperatures, deep-learning #AI approaches can be the best choice for estimating local #rainfall. 🧪
Are advances in basic science & technology enough to confront #climate change and other #sustainability challenges? An Institute-wide project at MIT co-led by CS3 is tapping expertise from the social sciences & #humanities to reframe the problem and identify more viable solutions. #SocialSciences 🧪
When basic science and technology is not enough to address climate change
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August 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Are advances in basic science & technology enough to confront #climate change and other #sustainability challenges? An Institute-wide project at MIT co-led by CS3 is tapping expertise from the social sciences & #humanities to reframe the problem and identify more viable solutions. #SocialSciences 🧪
High summer temps got you down? An analysis of social media in 157 countries finds hotter #weather is associated with more negative sentiments. The study, co-authored by CS3 faculty affiliate Siqi Zheng, appears in the journal One Earth. #weather #climate #health 🧪
Study links rising temperatures and declining moods
A study of social media posts in 157 countries finds extreme temperatures of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or more lowers daily sentiment by around 25 percent in lower-income countries and about 8 percent in ...
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August 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Why have #hydrogen - powered cars not yet achieved widespread adoption? To gain traction with consumers, hydrogen cars have a long way to go in reducing vehicle and fuel costs, says MIT CS3 Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev.
Why Hydrogen-Powered Cars Have Yet to Blow Up
Toyota, Hyundai, Honda, and others continue to pump money into hydrogen fuel cell vehicles—but why?
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August 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Why have #hydrogen - powered cars not yet achieved widespread adoption? To gain traction with consumers, hydrogen cars have a long way to go in reducing vehicle and fuel costs, says MIT CS3 Deputy Director Sergey Paltsev.
MIT News: New research can identify opportunities to drive down the cost of #renewableenergy systems, #batteries and many other technologies, finds study co-authored by Jessika Trancik, a CS3-affiliated professor at MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems and Society. 🧪
Surprisingly diverse innovations led to dramatically cheaper solar panels
A new study reveals key innovations that contributed to the rapid decline of solar energy systems, showing that many of the most significant technological advances came from outside the solar sector. ...
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August 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
MIT News: New research can identify opportunities to drive down the cost of #renewableenergy systems, #batteries and many other technologies, finds study co-authored by Jessika Trancik, a CS3-affiliated professor at MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems and Society. 🧪
Presenting the August edition of MIT CS3's e-newsletter. Learn about our latest research on improving #climate models, assessing #foodsecurity at the country level, mitigating #Risks from natural and climate disasters, and more. #sustainability 🧪https://tinyurl.com/2mwejc72
August 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Presenting the August edition of MIT CS3's e-newsletter. Learn about our latest research on improving #climate models, assessing #foodsecurity at the country level, mitigating #Risks from natural and climate disasters, and more. #sustainability 🧪https://tinyurl.com/2mwejc72
A series of new state laws restricting local air-quality reporting could imperil human #health. Data from neighborhood-level air-quality sensors are needed to enable affected populations to limit their #airpollution exposure, says MIT CS3 Director Noelle Selin. (Fast Company) 🧪
There is a bizarre red-state quest to prevent community air quality monitoring
In Louisiana, it’s illegal to publish results of personal air quality monitors without including ‘relevant uncertainties’ around the data—one of a series of new state laws designed to limit how much p...
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July 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A series of new state laws restricting local air-quality reporting could imperil human #health. Data from neighborhood-level air-quality sensors are needed to enable affected populations to limit their #airpollution exposure, says MIT CS3 Director Noelle Selin. (Fast Company) 🧪
Consideration of different potential greenhouse gas #emissions futures is essential for understanding and preparing for future climate change. A new book chapter (pp. 163-176) co-authored by MIT CS3 researchers provides guidance to researchers and decision-makers in this space. 🧪
Uncertainty in Climate Change Research
This open access book discusses uncertainty in climate change research, and applies it to assess impact mitigation, adaptation, and vulnerability.
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July 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Consideration of different potential greenhouse gas #emissions futures is essential for understanding and preparing for future climate change. A new book chapter (pp. 163-176) co-authored by MIT CS3 researchers provides guidance to researchers and decision-makers in this space. 🧪
We rely on #energy systems to allow us to do work, travel, process information & support economic activity. In this MIT Energy Initiative podcast, MIT Prof. Jessika Trancik, a CS3 faculty affiliate, takes a big-picture view of how energy systems are shaped & where there's opportunity to innovate.
How energy systems are shaped
We rely on our energy systems to allow us to do work, travel, process information,
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July 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
We rely on #energy systems to allow us to do work, travel, process information & support economic activity. In this MIT Energy Initiative podcast, MIT Prof. Jessika Trancik, a CS3 faculty affiliate, takes a big-picture view of how energy systems are shaped & where there's opportunity to innovate.
In one of 7 MIT Energy Initiative early-stage #energy research projects, CS3 researchers aim to create a framework for evaluating decarbonization & energy transition pathways for #Africa, which has the potential to be a major global player in #RenewableEnergy production & #carbon dioxide removal. 🧪
MIT Energy Initiative funds seven early-stage energy research projects
This spring, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) awarded more than $1.2 million in grants to support seven novel energy research projects as part of its Seed Fund program. Each project will receive $175...
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July 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
In one of 7 MIT Energy Initiative early-stage #energy research projects, CS3 researchers aim to create a framework for evaluating decarbonization & energy transition pathways for #Africa, which has the potential to be a major global player in #RenewableEnergy production & #carbon dioxide removal. 🧪