MIT Living Climate Futures symposium spotlights place-based climate solutions

MIT’s Living Climate Futures (LCF) showcased collaborations at its second Living Climate Futures Symposium held April 23–25 at MIT.

• Main announcement: LCF convened its second Living Climate Futures Symposium (April 23–25) at MIT to showcase place-based research collaborations between 20 MIT faculty and affiliates and frontline community organizations, focusing on community-based responses to climate impacts (sessions included data centers and community health, global climate reparations, urban agriculture, rural adaptation, and training for community-oriented research).
• Background and details: The initiative is funded by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) and based in MIT SHASS; the symposium highlighted concrete tools and outputs such as a data-center emissions and exposure modelling tool (Michael Cork), the Global Climate Reparations Working Statement (resulting from the 2024 Nairobi Governance Assembly), community CBAs (community benefit agreements) as negotiation tools, and field activities including a visit to The Food Project and a Stone Living Lab tour of nature-based flood protection; no monetary deal values or contract prices were announced.