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Location: HUCE 440, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge MA

The Energy Seminar at Harvard series features weekly conversations with leading practitioners in climate and energy. Join on Monday evenings from 6:30-7:15pm at the Harvard University Center for the Environment to meet the CEOs, researchers, investors, and engineers who are driving decarbonization. On Monday 4/28, the Energy Seminar welcomes Dr. Chad Vecitis, Chief Scientist at Nth Cycle.

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Location: University Club of San Francisco, 800 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, HBS’s Business and Environment Initiative, and HLS's Environmental & Energy Law Program invite you to join us for a panel discussion on how businesses, policymakers, and communities can better prepare for, respond to, and recover from climate-driven disasters. Hosted during San Francisco Climate Week, this event will bring together Harvard alumni experts from across schools and disciplines to discuss interdisciplinary approaches to enhancing resilience and adaptation in the face of extreme weather events such as the recent LA...

Read more about Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience + Networking Reception

Location: Land Hall, Belfer Building, Room 400, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

This is an advanced research seminar on selected topics in environmental and resource economics. Emphasizes theoretical models, quantitative empirical analysis, and public policy applications. Includes presentations by invited outside speakers.

Benjamin Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present “The Origins and Control of Forest Fires in the Tropics.”... Read more about Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Location: HUCE 440, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge MA

The Energy Seminar at Harvard series features weekly conversations with leading practitioners in climate and energy. Join on Monday evenings from 6:30-7:15pm at the Harvard University Center for the Environment to meet the CEOs, researchers, investors, and engineers who are driving decarbonization. On Monday 4/21, the Energy Seminar welcomes Michael Segal, Senior Director of Open Innovation at Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

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Location: Virtual & Rubenstein Building, David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Room 414AB. 79 JFK St., Cambridge

We’ve been here before. In 2016, U.S. Governors emerged as leaders on clean energy, climate and environment as President Trump set the nation in reverse. Trump 2.0 has kicked off with an unprecedented attack not just on the nation’s environmental and climate policies but on the federal government itself. In this Energy Policy Seminar, Basil Seggos, partner at the law firm Foley Hoag, will explore the question: can our state leaders re-emerge as a bulwark on environmental protection?... Read more about Environment at a Crossroads: Can States Lead as the Feds Retreat?

Location: Land Hall, Belfer Building, Room 400, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

This is an advanced research seminar on selected topics in environmental and resource economics. Emphasizes theoretical models, quantitative empirical analysis, and public policy applications. Includes presentations by invited outside speakers.

Christian Gollier, Toulouse School of Economics, will present “Discounting.”... Read more about Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Location: HUCE 440, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge MA

The Energy Seminar at Harvard series features weekly conversations with leading practitioners in climate and energy. Join on Monday evenings from 6:30-7:15pm at the Harvard University Center for the Environment to meet the CEOs, researchers, investors, and engineers who are driving decarbonization. On Monday 4/14, the Energy Seminar welcomes Dr. Wenxiao Huang, CEO of Feon Energy.

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Location: HUCE 440, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge MA

The Harvard Energy Seminar series features weekly conversations with leading practitioners in climate and energy. Join on Monday evenings from 6:30-7:15pm at the Harvard University Center for the Environment to meet the CEOs, researchers, investors, and engineers who are driving decarbonization. On Monday 2/24, the Energy Seminar welcomes Dr. Wenxiao Huang, CEO and co-founder of Feon Energy.... Read more about Harvard Energy Seminar: Wenxiao Huang

Location: Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Since the dawn of the atomic age, humanity has struggled with the inherent duality of atomic fission, with its awesome power to either benefit or obliterate life on earth. Waves of optimism and despair have been driven by the threat of the proliferation of nuclear weapons and their possible use, and by the hopes of a prodigious carbon-free energy source that has stumbled and lost public confidence in the process.... Read more about A New Nuclear Age?

Location: Austin Hall Room 101, Harvard Law School

Join the Environmental Law Society at the Harvard Law School and the Environmental Justice Student Organization for a symposium at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Please provide your information at the link to confirm your registration for the symposium. If you would like to submit an abstract for poster presentation at the event, please indicate your preference to be directed to the abstract submission form.
Please note that all attendees are responsible for their own transportation and lodging for the event. Poster presenters are responsible for preparing and...

Read more about Harvard Climate Connect: Community-Driven Solutions to Heat-Based Climate Inequity

Location: CGIS South Bldg, Rm S030, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge

The CMES Reframing Conflict: Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria in Context series presents:

Nisrin Elamin
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Toronto

In the agricultural Gezira region of central Sudan, the term khalla means open land or expanse and refers to communal land that is partly used for grazing animals or rain-fed farming; what is often referred to as ‘the commons.’ Beginning with the provocation that the khalla is “running away from us” due to large-scale land investments and agribusiness practices, this talk takes up...

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Location: Mignone Center for Career Success, 54 Dunster St, Cambridge

Join us on April 9th, to hear from Nisha Desai, MBA ’97, Founder & CEO of Intention, Jock Gilchrist, Vice President of Sustainability at JPMorgan Chase, and Vid Mićević, Investor at Collaborative Fund, reflect on their career, education, and current work in climate and sustainability finance and investment.... Read more about Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series: Careers in Climate and Sustainability Finance and Investment

Location: WCC 1019, Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Join the Harvard Human Rights Journal and the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic for a talk by Dr. Daniel Gustafson, Special Representative of the Director-General at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), former Deputy Director-General of the Organization, on “Ensuring the Right to Food in the Face of Climate Change: The Role of UN FAO.”

The talk addresses the interrelations between climate change and global hunger from the perspective of the UN FAO, highlighting how climate change exacerbates food insecurity and hinders the full realization of the right to...

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Location: HUCE Seminar Room 440, MCZ 4th Floor, 26 Oxford Street Cambridge

"Going Beyond Emissions Reduction: Climate Repair" with Dr. Shaun Fitzgerald OBE FREng, Director of the Centre for Climate Repair, Cambridge University.

Abstract: We will first briefly discuss the state of the climate, some of the recent changes, the trend in emissions and greenhouse gas (GHG) levels, and importantly the trajectories which are now considered by the IPCC. We will then investigate options for following different trajectories. We will discuss the role of GHG removal and outline some of the research being undertaken to progress the field independent of carbon markets...

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Location: Bowie Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge SH

Join the Weatherhead Center Canada Program for their Canada Seminar featuring Emma Gilheany, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Canada Program, and Affiliate, Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP).... Read more about Against Cryo Nullius: Icy Materialities and Nunatsiavummiut Refusal of the Settler State

Location: HUCE 440, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge MA

The Harvard Energy Seminar series features weekly conversations with leading practitioners in climate and energy. Join on Monday evenings from 6:30-7:15pm at the Harvard University Center for the Environment to meet the CEOs, researchers, investors, and engineers who are driving decarbonization. On Monday 2/24, the Energy Seminar welcomes Jim Cabot, Managing Partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures and alumnus of Harvard College and HBS.... Read more about Harvard Energy Seminar: Jim Cabot

Location: Rubenstein Building, Room 414 AB, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Passing environmental policy is difficult, because of the – reasonable – concern that it will increase costs. But implementation often leads to systemic changes that make environmental regulation cheaper and easier to implement than expected.... Read more about The Policy Is Just the Beginning: How Implementation Makes Environmental Policy Cheaper and Easier Than Expected

Location: Virtual

This presentation will examine the impact of climate change on health through patient cases, providing a framework for assessing climate-related health risks and discussing integrative approaches to care. It will also explore how environmental factors influence integrative medicine, including the role of nature-based therapies in supporting patient well-being, focusing on adapting these strategies for low-income communities and urban areas with limited access to green spaces.

Wynne Armand, MD
Associate Director, Mass General Center for the Environment and Health
Assistant...

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Location: Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge

In 1977, nine years after its initial release, Ray and Charles Eames issued an amended version of their experimental film Powers of Ten, incorporating two additional scales, and thereby effecting “a hundredfold increase—to each end of the journey into the universe, and to the return trip to the microstructure of the carbon atom in the human body.” Drawing on up-to-the-moment scientific developments at scales both extra-large and extra-small, seizing upon the power of then-novel media and representational techniques to appeal to very different audiences, and venturing well beyond the...

Read more about Cambridge Talks: Acts of Scaling

Location: Pierce Hall, Room 301, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Rong Ma, Associate Professor, China Agricultural University; Alumnus (Visiting Fellow) and Collaborator, Harvard-China Project

This paper examines a solar subsidy program in China designed to alleviate poverty among rural households in the country’s most impoverished regions through solar resource development. The empirical findings indicate a substantial increase in firm entry in treated villages, accompanied by a marked structural transformation characterized by a reduction in self-employment and a shift in...

Read more about Powering a Just Transition: The Impacts of Place-Based Solar Expansion in Rural China