Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Monday, September 23rd.

Today on Forbes, meet the MIT Professor with 8 climate startups and 2.5 billion dollars in funding.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Yetming Chang

likes to fish.

And it was through fishing, back in the early 1990s,

that he started to notice that the New England waters were warming.

During a call from his office with a Japanese style fish print of a striped bass he caught behind him. He said, quote,

we used to catch lobster in Cape Cod. Now we catch Mahi-Mahi.

It's really nuts.

That glimpse of the real world impact of climate change,

with tropical and subtropical fish appearing in waters where they don't belong,

was pivotal for Chang, who has used his research lab to co-found 10 startups. Eight of them are focused on energy

and sustainability including form energy which has raised nearly one billion

dollars for its iron air battery products and sublime systems which in April

received 87 million dollars from the Department of Energy to build a commercial

plant to make low-carbon cement. As the climate crisis has become increasingly urgent,

Chang's research and his ability to spin out real-world applications from it

offers hope,

and landed him a spot on Forbes's inaugural Sustainability Leaders list released just

last week.

Chang holds some 110 patents and has written more than 300 scientific articles in fields like battery technology and

electrochemical production of industrial materials. Perhaps more important,

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