Agreement on Climate Change Ends Long Sit-In at MIT

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a student protest group have reached an agreement that will end a sit-in that has been going on in the administration building since October. The students want MIT's endowment to sell off holdings in fossil fuel companies, and the university still declines to do so. But MIT committed to take additional steps toward carbon neutrality on campus, and to work on benchmarks and guidelines for MIT's engagement with climate change off campus, including its ties to government and businesses.