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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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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.

Adrien Bilal, Stanford University, will present “The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global vs. Local Temperature.”... Read more about Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

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. Leah Ellis, CEO and co-founder of Sublime Systems.... Read more about Harvard Energy Seminar: Leah Ellis

Location: Virtual

Trained in anthropology and education, Gabrielle Oliveira works at the intersections of migration, education, family, and childhood studies. At Radcliffe, she will write her third book, which will focus on how migrant children conceptualize climate change, land loss, and mobility in schools in Venezuela and Brazil.... Read more about My Home, Our Planet: Venezuelan Migrant Children in Brazil and the Role of Education of Climate Change

Location: Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Building Salata Conference Room Floor 3.5 , 79 JFK St. Cambridge

Join us on March 12th, to hear from Hessann Farooqi, Executive Director of the Boston Climate Action Network, Rafael Monge, MPA '24 Clean Energy Deployment Policy Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Jaida Nabayan, MUP ’23 Principal Climate Policy Advisor for Sonoma County, reflect on their career, education, and current work in climate and sustainability policy.... Read more about Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series: Careers in Climate and Sustainability Policy

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. Christina Chang, Partner at Lowercarbon Capital and Harvard CCB alumnus.... Read more about Harvard Energy Seminar: Christina Chang

Location: CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

The Program on Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Circle at Harvard provides a space for weekly conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology that are relevant to fields such as anthropology, history of science, sociology, STS, law, government, public policy, and the natural sciences. Dissertation writers and recent graduates are working on exciting topics that intersect with STS at the edges of their home disciplines. The Circle offers wide exposure to such emerging STS scholarship that otherwise has no forum at Harvard.... Read more about STS Circle: Net Zero Climate Targets: The Gulf between Science and Social Representation

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

The success of nuclear power renaissance hinges on addressing one critical challenge: cost. Historically, nuclear power has been plagued by a “cost escalation curse,” with overnight construction costs rising dramatically in countries like the United States and France from the 1970s to the 1990s. In contrast, China’s nuclear sector presents a striking counterexample, achieving declining costs alongside substantially capacity expansion.... Read more about Breaking the Cost Escalation Curse of Nuclear Power

Location: Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard University

The Air Transportation Forum will convene students, researchers, and members of the academic community to discuss the challenges and opportunities in the global aviation industry. As a student-organized event, the aim is to bring together airline partners and industry leaders with students and faculty to foster dialogue surrounding opportunities and careers in the future of air transportation.... Read more about Air Transportation at Harvard University

Location: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Harnessing AI-Enhanced Collaborative Negotiation to Tackle Global Climate Challenges... Read more about AI Negotiation Challenge at Harvard

Location: Virtual and Harvard GSD, Piper Auditorium 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

The African Landscape Architectures conference brings together a wide range of landscape practices from across the continent. This two-day hybrid event highlights the transformative potential of decolonizing design to address social injustices and prepare African cities for the impacts of climate change. Speakers will explore innovative strategies through frameworks such as ecology, adaptation, and materiality that offer alternative futures for African landscapes.

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Location: Salata Conference Room, Belfer 3.5, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Join the Salata Institute and the Southeast Asia Initiative of the Harvard Asia Center for a lunch and learn to hear from Professor and Executive Director of Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, Dr. Jemaliah Mahmood, who will talk about the Politics of Climate Change and Health and why international collaboration is now more important than ever.  Dr. Mahmood will then be joined for a discussion moderated by Dr. David Duong,, Director of Global Primary Health Care at the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care and the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  Other speakers will include environment defender and community activist from the Philippines, Derek Cabe and Dr. Bach Tran, Professor of Medicine, Dean of Public Health and climate researcher at Vietnam National University.... Read more about The Politics of Climate Change and Health: Why international collaboration is now more important than ever

Location: Center for the Environment, Seminar Room 440, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute invite you to hear from photographer and environmental artist Claudio Cambon, whose To Reach the Source: The Stepwells of India series is currently on display at the Center for the Environment. Through his evocative photography of stepwells, Cambon invites us to reconsider our relationship with water, space, and the environment. His work highlights the importance of preserving both historical structures and natural resources, demonstrating how aesthetic appreciation can lead to deeper ecological awareness. By immersing viewers in the beauty and significance of stepwells, Cambon’s art fosters a sense of connection to the past and a renewed responsibility for the future.... Read more about To Reach the Source: The Stepwells of India with Claudio Cambon