Actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change require different approaches in different places. The Living Climate Futures Symposium brought together community environmental organizations with MIT researchers and students to explore how climate change challenges and responses to them are playing out in locations from New England to Mongolia.

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MIT's Living Climate Futures initiative held its second symposium bringing together community organizations and researchers to explore place-based climate challenges and solutions. Sessions covered data center health impacts on communities in Western Pennsylvania, climate reparations frameworks, urban agriculture in Greater Boston, and adaptation strategies in Mongolia, the Navajo Nation, and Boston Harbor. The event also highlighted interdisciplinary 'Anthro-Engineering' education programs training students to integrate human and cultural perspectives into climate solutions.

Place-based pathways to a viable future