The Climate Change Engagement Program equips “climate curious” learners everywhere to make informed decisions about the urgency of the climate challenge and the solutions available to address it. Our audience — over 5 million unique readers and listeners — includes educators, journalists, professionals, and students seeking resources for learning, training, and career exploration.
MIT Climate Portal
The MIT Climate Portal is one of the world’s go-to resources for online learning about climate change. Featuring over 250 original publications, including a library of explainers on key climate topics as well as the popular Ask MIT Climate series, the Climate Portal helps ground beginning learners with the essential facts and questions in a wide range of fields connected to climate change. All Climate Portal resources are developed in collaboration with subject matter experts at MIT and its partner institutions. They provide a knowledgeable, “just-the-facts” perspective on how and why climate change is unfolding, how the science is done, the impacts on people and ecosystems, and the policy and technology solutions that exist today or may be developed in the future.
The Climate Portal also serves as a front door to MIT’s activities on climate change, with a library of educational resources, a directory of Institute departments and centers, and updates on climate research and action from around MIT.
Visit the Climate Portal at climate.mit.edu.
TILclimate Podcast
TILclimate (Today I Learned: Climate) is the climate change podcast for everyone. In bite-size, 10-15 minute episodes, TILclimate invites scientists and experts from MIT and beyond to break down critical climate change topics in plain language, with no prior knowledge required.
Regularly featured on lists of the world’s best climate change podcasts — including by Apple, Spotify, the New York Times, and the Society of Environmental Journalists — TILclimate is designed to make climate learning easy and accessible, to approach its topics with a scientist’s healthy skepticism, and to leave listeners feeling more confident about facing the future at a time of rapid change. Many episodes are also accompanied by educator guides for use in the classroom.
Listen and subscribe to TILclimate at tilclimate.mit.edu.
MIT Climate Primer
The MIT Climate Primer is MIT’s interactive, online “climate change 101.” Through 11 short digital chapters, the Primer leads readers through the story of how scientists discovered that human actions are changing the Earth’s climate—as well as the open questions scientists are still working to answer. Along the way, readers interact with graphics, quizzes, videos, and other resources to dive deeper on the topics that spark their curiosity.
Written by acclaimed climate scientist Prof. Kerry Emanuel, and developed in collaboration with MIT Open Learning to incorporate gold-standard online learning techniques, the MIT Climate Primer has received a Webby Award for its innovative, user-friendly design. Providing the same solid foundation in climate science as a high school or introductory college course, it has been adopted for use in high schools, universities, and adult learning settings around the world.
Visit the MIT Climate Primer at climateprimer.mit.edu.
MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowship
The MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowship empowers journalists to pursue ambitious climate reporting projects in local news outlets across the United States. By supporting news stories that would not otherwise be possible, the fellowship aims to elevate and inform public discussion about climate change — with a special priority on reaching parts of the U.S. where climate change remains sharply polarizing or underreported.
The fellowship is a five-month, non-residential program, centered on an extended reporting project that connects climate change or climate solutions with local values, perspectives, and priorities. It is open to freelance and staff journalists working with a sponsoring local or regional newsroom, in print, digital, or radio journalism.
Keep an eye on this page for the most up-to-date application information.
For questions about the Climate Change Engagement Program, please contact Aaron Krol at akrol@mit.edu.