Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth
Discover a bold new initiative merging economics, science, technology, and policy to confront the defining challenge of our time: building a livable planet alongside a growing global economy.
Chicago minds advancing a new model for climate action
At the new Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth, researchers confront climate change through the combined strengths of economics, science, technology, and policy. Their work rejects the false choice between reducing emissions and expanding economic opportunity. The institute advances research in energy systems, climate modeling, battery technologies, air quality, and carbon markets while helping communities and policymakers turn knowledge into action.
Philanthropic support will accelerate ambitious, high-impact research, strengthen faculty leadership, and expand a first-of-its-kind curriculum preparing future climate leaders to navigate the scientific, economic, and human dimensions of the challenge to protect the climate while promoting opportunity.
Priorities
Your giving can support the following areas:
- Naming opportunities for the institute and its initiatives to sustain the research, education, and policy work shaping humanity’s response to climate change for generations to come
- Endowed professorships in climate, energy, economics, and policy to recruit and retain world-leading scholars advancing research in areas such as climate systems engineering, battery technologies, emissions markets, and sustainable growth
- Venture and seed funds for innovative climate research to accelerate breakthrough ideas across energy policy, climate systems engineering, air quality, and emerging energy technologies
- The Chicago Curriculum on Climate and Sustainable Growth to support a first-of-its-kind educational model combining classroom instruction, experiential learning, career development, and global engagement
- Outreach, communications, and public engagement initiatives to translate frontier research into accessible tools, public data, and evidence-informed policy conversations around the world
- Global climate partnerships and real-world implementation efforts to expand emissions markets, deploy air-quality monitoring systems, strengthen climate adaptation tools, and move climate solutions from research into practice
Contact
Erin Adcock
eadcock@uchicago.edu