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/

Climate scenarios are tools used to explore different possible futures as the world economy evolves and the climate changes in response.

Susan Solomon (Source: MIT EAPS)

Graduates celebrated on Killian Court at the OneMIT Commencement ceremony Thursday.
Credits:Credit: Gretchen Ertl

Explore why a systems view combining science, policy, and technology is essential for sustainability leaders navigating climate change and making informed strategic decisions. Source: Business Insight Journal

Dogs cooled off last year in Cambridge. (Erin Clark/Globe Staff)

Ozone layer recovery. Source: NASA

Climate Reveal

2025 Global Change Outlook. Photo credit: iStock

Increasing heat stress is projected to reduce working hours and economic output. (Source: Future Earth)

The oceans are a critical life-support system for the planet.

Melting polar ice sheets

Some marine photoplankton can adapt to changing light, altering #ocean #ecosystems and, potentially, #carbon storage. (Source: NASA)

Decarbonizing the steel industry

A modeling study shows that global warming will likely make it harder to reduce ground-level ozone, a respiratory irritant that is a key component of smog, by cutting nitrogen oxide emissions.
Image: iStock

At the Climate Project at MIT spring gathering, CS3-affilated PhD student Chris Womack presented the Bringing #Computation to the #Climate Challenge (BC3) project, which aims to democratize access to reliable information about climate change. (Photo by Dimonika Bray)

Hannah Rajput, a CS3-affiliated Master's student in the Technology and Policy Program at MIT, demoing CS3's System for the Triage of Risks from Environmental and Socio-economic Stressors (STRESS) platform at the Climate Project at MIT spring gathering. Rajput's current work involves developing the STRESS platform to be more publicly accessible and relevant to local stakeholders. (Photo by Dimonika Bray)

MIT CS3 June 2025 e-newsletter: Air quality in the low-carbon transition

This image shows SAR11, the most common type of bacteria in the ocean. In the study by Zakem et al., SAR11 was found to be the most abundant group, especially near the ocean’s surface. The model used in the study assumes that SAR11 feeds on easily digestible organic material (Base image: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagibacterales#/media/Fichier:Pelagibacter.jpg)

Sustainable aviation fuel. (Source: ASEAN)

National Carbon Capture Center test facility, Wilsonville, Alabama

MIT CS3 research scientist Kenneth Strzepek delivering lecture in Uganda

Biochar (Source: Flickr/Simon Dooley)

This drone image provided by Kairat Kassymbekov shows flooding from Hurricane Milton in Tampa, Fla., on Oct. 10, 2024. (Kairat Kassymbekov via AP)