About Us
Converting sustainability challenges into opportunities
Building a sustainable, prosperous future requires innovations in policy, markets, business, and technology. Based in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, the Accelerator identifies, funds, and supports projects with transformative potential, positioning them to scale beyond Stanford within three years.
Flagships
The Accelerator selects project teams led by Stanford faculty and provides them with funding, mentorship, and connections to experts outside the university. Each project team joins a cohort working toward one or more ambitious sustainability targets, or “flagship destinations,” where the Accelerator has identified high potential for impact on a global scale.
Climate Tech Map: Mineral carbon removal
One of nature’s most promising ways of capturing carbon already exists at an enormous scale, but it’s far too slow to meet today’s climate deadlines. Jeff Brown, a managing director at the Accelerator, shares opportunities for making mineralization work fast, affordably, and at a planetary scale in a new video produced by the Climate Tech Map, a free resource for accelerating decarbonization.
CLIMATE TECH MAP CONTRIBUTORS: Stanford Sustainability Accelerator and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, McKinsey, Elemental Impact, Energy Innovation, Breakthrough Energy, and Speed & Scale
Featured News
New initiative aims to fast-track fire innovations
The Stanford Sustainability Accelerator has launched a Fire Innovation Initiative to accelerate the development and adoption of technologies, policies, and other solutions that reduce wildfire risk and strengthen the resilience of communities and ecosystems.