The creation of the S-Lab recognizes the scale of the challenge caused by climate change, said RichardLocke, one of six MIT professor who set up the new courses.
"It is not helpful for a retailer or brand to simply publish a list of factories they no longer work with, " said RichardLocke, a professor of political science and management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is working on several projects related to globalization and labor standards.