The 2023 MIT Sustainability Summit in April tackled carbon markets from the perspective of consumers, small companies, and big corporations.

Juliana Kerrest, MBA ’18, chief people and sustainability officer at Nuru, discusses the nuances of working at the startup, which provides the people of Congo with consistent electricity.

The 2023 MIT Sustainability Summit aims to demystify carbon markets on Friday, April 28, at the Samberg Conference Center.

A majority of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo lack access to electricity. At Nuru, Juliana Kerrest, MBA ‘18, Chief People and Sustainability Officer, is dedicated to enhancing connectivity. Nuru builds mini solar grids allowing those in remote areas to tap into a power source.

From a new climate policy center to slow fashion and circular plastic, MIT Sloan is at the cutting edge of innovation.

Marta Ortega-Valle, SF ’08, is addressing one of the most pressing challenges faced by farmers: crop threats. She co-founded GreenLight Biosciences with fellow MIT alumni to help farmers create sustainable agricultural systems through the integration of science with technology.

After graduating from the MIT Sloan School of Management, classmates Shayna Harris, MBA '11, and Noramay Cadena, LGO '11, set off on their own varied career paths in food and supply chain operations, aerospace engineering, and venture capital.

Rubén Lozano Aguilera, MBA ’13 identified pollution as a key challenge for the future of transportation in urban areas. With the introduction of eco-friendly routes on Google Maps, Lozano Aguilera and team have prevented an estimated 2.4MM+ metric tons of CO2 emissions—equivalent to removing 500K fu...

Jeff Tedmori, MBA ’20, never thought his entrepreneurial journey would take him to the London set of ‘Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars’.

Deepak Dugar, SM ’11, MBA ’13, PhD ’13, is leading a transformative effort in material production, by replacing petroleum not just as a fuel but as a material. He’s doing this through combining synthetic biology with chemical catalysis to reinvent the way the world makes things—and reducing gigatons...