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The center's Innovation Transfer Program recently awarded grants to 11 Stanford teams developing technologies and services with enduring sustainability impacts. Grants provide resources to help teams iterate prototypes, refine business plans, conduct customer trials and market research, and establish commercial viability.

The Stanford Sustainability Accelerator, based in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, has awarded nearly $5 million to teams across 22 departments working to advance climate resilience, clean energy, ocean health, water access, and more.

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Stanford University Libraries are collaborating to reorganize, rehouse, and revitalize the Geoscience Specimen Collection, which contains an estimated half a million specimens, including rocks, minerals, fossils, cores, soil, water, and other physical materials. 

"As an engineer, my job is to bridge the gap between the theoretical and practical – taking equations of math and science and applying them to real-world solutions."

Fellowships will help doctoral students turn their research into real-world solutions, addressing challenges in aviation emissions, bioenergy, wildfire protection, tribal energy policy and more.

$6.3 million for new projects in the past year covers the breadth of energy challenges, from sustainably powering AI and industrial decarbonization to renewable fuels and energy security.

The 2026 winners of the Natural Capital Young Leaders Prize have advocated for a view of nature and economies as deeply intertwined, encouraging people to see themselves as part of nature rather than separate from it.

Azevedo aims to foster research that addresses environmental problems – ranging from local to global – and prepare the next generation of environmental leaders and professionals.

With support from the TomKat Center, Emily Tench is building an AI partner for infrastructure developers to de-risk their projects from the earliest stages.

Leaders from 32 countries convened at Stanford to unlock ways of meeting surging demand for valuing nature in decisions – and growing that demand exponentially.

Two Stanford Medicine assistant professors will explore the impact of climate on health risks ranging from extreme heat to parasitic threats

AI is contributing to a rising demand for electricity – a pressing sustainability challenge. Professor Will Chueh says it can also be part of the solution, by accelerating advances and deployment in energy technologies.

Postdoctoral scholars and energy researchers discussed advances and remaining challenges for powering artificial intelligence, next-generation batteries, fuel cells, sustainable aviation, low-carbon cement, and other topics at a recent symposium.

PhD student Fridah Nyakundi studies ways to improve food policy and production, focusing on how fish farmers in western Kenya perceive and manage risk.

Electrification for Health is a new Stanford program that aims to accelerate the transition to safer, cleaner electric appliances to protect human health today and support sustainable energy for the future.

The Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Gund Institute are formalizing their collaboration with the Natural Capital Alliance after years of work together.

Sixteen Stanford scholars including Isabel Vila Ortiz, Earth systems BS ’25, have accepted grants funded by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to pursue special projects abroad during the 2026-27 academic year.