Climate-change committee submits community’s recommendations
Today, Vice President for Research Maria Zuber is releasing a report from a committee charged with engaging the MIT community on the issue of climate change. The report offers an expansive suite of ideas about how MIT can most productively contribute to solving the problem. In releasing the report, Zuber is inviting comments on it via email (to climateconversation@mit.edu) from the MIT community over the next 30 days: This further input will help inform recommendations that will be presented to MIT President L. Rafael Reif this summer. Today’s report caps a year’s work. In May 2014, Reif announced that he was asking Susan Solomon, the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences — named that day as the founding director of an Institute-wide environmental initiative — to work with Zuber, Provost Martin Schmidt, and MIT Energy Initiative Director Robert Armstrong (together with Solomon, the “Conversation Leadership”)...