A dozen MIT students recently set out for Barcelona ' not just to study climate resilience, but to experience it firsthand. As part of STS.S22 (How to Grow Resilient Futures: Regenerative Agriculture and Economies in Catalunya, Spain), an Independent Activities Period course taught by Kate Brown, the Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of Science, they stepped beyond the classroom and into living systems of sustainability. Offered as a Global Classroom through MIT International Science and Technology (MISTI), the course reimagined what learning could look like. Instead of working their way through a syllabus containing texts about sustainable farming and the power of cooperatives, Brown's students got their hands dirty. In fact, quite literally: They visited local farms and slaughterhouses; prepped, cooked, and served a cooperative dinner to migrants; and constructed a working greenhouse. In the process, they built a lasting community and forged their own visions about sustainability and how they are compelled to confront climate change ' as MIT students now, and eventually as alumni....

Let me put it plainly. If it takes something as extreme as war to speed up the energy transition, then we need to seriously question how capital has been deployed up to now. That question might sound simple, but it slices through years of carefully constructed narratives around ESG, sustainability reporting, and all the polished language about long-term thinking. What we are beginning to see is not that markets misunderstood climate risk. They misunderstood time itself, the urgency of the moment, and just how fragile the system really is....

Mitali Chowdhury '24 and Christina Kim '24 have been selected as 2026 Gates Cambridge Scholars. The highly competitive fellowship offers fully funded opportunities for postgraduate study in any field at Cambridge University in the U.K. Kim is a second-time Gates Cambridge Scholar. Chowdury graduated from MIT with a BS in biological engineering and minors in both urban planning and environment and sustainability. Chowdhury has had a longstanding interest in reducing inequities in global health. At MIT, she pursued research in point-of-care diagnostics to identify and treat disease with accessible biotechnologies. She also helped develop low-cost testing for bacterial contamination in water in South Asia. Chowdury currently works at a startup advancing sequencing-based diagnostics. At Cambridge University, she will study for MPhil and PhD degrees in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies. Her research will focus on CRISPR-based diagnostics to address antimicrobial resistance and expand equitable access to care....

It has previously announced partnerships with BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, and TPG. The KKR commitment adds another tier-one manager to that roster, with the vehicle targeting $250bn in mobilised climate finance by 2030, much of it directed at developing markets. KKR's Global Climate Transition Strategy, co-managed by Charlie Gailliot and Emmanuel Lagarrigue, invests across renewables and storage, electrification, energy efficiency, sustainable fuels, waste, and circular economy solutions. The firm brings more than 15 years of infrastructure investing experience and $100bn in infrastructure assets under management, having deployed over $44bn into climate and environmental sustainability investments since 2011. The strategy has already made seven investments, including UK-based transport electrification specialist Zenobe, German energy services provider EGC, solar and storage developer Avantus in the US, and industrial decarbonisation platform IGNIS P2X. 'We see a significant opportunity to invest in solutions that enhance energy security, improve affordability, and ensure reliability, while supporting decarbonization across the real economy,' said Charlie Gailliot and Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Co-Heads of KKR's Global Climate Transition Strategy. 'By combining ALTERRA's global perspective with KKR's experience investing across climate and infrastructure, we are well positioned to scale proven technologies and build more resilient, efficient energy systems for the long term....