that by joining forces

you can solve problems in a deeper way, in a richer way,

and in a broader way, in a more impactful way.

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Clearly, climate change is one of the most  

important challenges of our time, if not  the most important one.

And time is ticking.

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So everyone, every entity, every component of our society

has to participate towards that solution.

MIT has launched a new initiative called the  grand challenges initiative

in developing new ways to address challenging problems that we face in climate

that cross-cut the entire institute.

But we have to find ways in  which those solutions, those ideas,

that science can move into the economy to actually  really make progress in decarbonizing economy. 

One of the ways that you enable technologies, discoveries, scientific advances

to make more of an impact, or to make an impact faster is by working closely with industry.

Because they know what the real problems are related to scaling up  a given technology or a given solution.

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As soon as we realized that this was an opportunity, and that we can participate and make a big difference  

the Dean of Engineering, Anantha Chandrakasan, working very closely with

Jeffrey Grossman and Elsa Olivetti

created this consortium with companies that want to be part of the solution.  

A lot of these companies have climate goals. They have aggressive climate goals.

And we're not just linking together the climate goals of  each of these industries.

We're linking together and looking for opportunities in

all of the supply chains that support those goals, that support those industries.

So as you can imagine this is a complicated problem

but that's exactly why it matters that we do this right now,

why it matters that we do this collaboratively.

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This is really an effort for the whole of MIT

to work with the whole of society, in this particular case with industries 

that can move those ideas  very quickly into the economy.

And I'm certain that by working together

we can do this.

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