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: Bell Hall B-500, HKS, 79 JFK St, Cambridge

Join Salata Institute staff, Salata Student Ambassadors, and other climate-minded students from across Harvard's schools at the Institute's Spring 2025 Open House!
Learn about our student funding programs, professional development opportunities, and network with other students who are passionate about climate and sustainability.... Read more about Salata Institute Spring 2025 Open House

Location: Virtual

Join the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program for an upcoming webinar, where we will present and seek input on our research that examines the intersection of climate and development finance.... Read more about Disentangling Climate and Development Finance

Location: Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge

This 2-day workshop (January 10 and January 13) will expose participants from all schools, departments and disciplines at Harvard to an emergent data-driven geodesign framework for designing at the largest size imaginable – global – to identify feasible strategies to substantially reduce GHG emissions, the single most important global action available for countering cataclysmic global warming.... Read more about Multidisciplinary Geodesign Workshop for Strategic Global Climate Change Mitigation

Location: Zoom, registration required

The Salata Institute and the Harvard Alumni Association present Harvard Voices on Climate Change, a virtual series featuring Harvard faculty and fellows working on different dimensions of the climate challenge. This session features Ari Peskoe, Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program, Harvard Law School, and Elizabeth Thom, PhD Candidate in Government & Social Policy, Harvard University. Together, they will explore the critical topic of modernizing the U.S. power grid to support the dual demands of artificial intelligence and a transition to clean energy.... Read more about Harvard Voices on Climate Change: Building the U.S. Power Grid for AI and Clean Energy

Location: Bell Hall B-500, Belfer Building, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Join Harvard Students and Faculty as they share their key takeaways and perspectives from the UN Climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan. A blended panel will analyze progress around international climate negotiations and discuss what lies ahead for COP30 in Brazil. This event will have a catered breakfast buffet.

... Read more about From Baku to Brazil: Key Takeaways from COP29 and the Road to COP30

Location: Mather House dhall, Alcove Room, 10 Cowperthwaite St, Cambridge

Come and play Climate Board Games, browse a mountain of climate learning material, and chat with people doing climate work at Harvard and beyond. Open to all college students. Vegan pastries from Maple & Maine will be provided.... Read more about Climate Board Games & More

Location: Harvard SOCH, 59 Shepard Street, Cambridge

The Summer Opportunities & Funding Fair is Harvard's largest summer planning event of the year. Attending Harvard College students will meet representatives from various Harvard centers and departments, as well as external organizations, offering domestic and international research, study, internship, volunteer, and funding opportunities.... Read more about 2024 Harvard Summer Opportunities & Funding Fair

Location: HKS (Belfer B-322, Salata Conference Room), 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Greenwashed Groceries

Location: HKS (Belfer B-322, Salata Conference Room), 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Greenwashed Groceries

Location: Pierce Hall, Room 100F, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge

A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Yu Zhao, Professor, School of Environment, Nanjing University; Alumnus (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Collaborator, Harvard-China Project... Read more about The effectiveness of China's emission controls on air quality, deposition and health burdens

Location: Zoom

Alivia Moore - Remembering the Earth as Our First Teacher: Wabanaki Land Rematriation Efforts... Read more about Harvard Forest Seminars: Remembering the Earth as Our First Teacher: Wabanaki Land Rematriation Efforts

Location: Pierce Hall Room 209, 29 Oxford St, Cambridge

Join the Environmentalists of Color Collective and  HUEJ for an engaging in-person conversation on environmental justice, where we will gather together while Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome, the Federal Chief Environmental Justice Officer at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, joins us virtually via Zoom.... Read more about Environmental Justice Spotlight: Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome

Location: Virtual

Join us for a live, virtual event to hear from Harvard faculty about the possible implications of the 2024 U.S. elections. Speakers will address U.S. and global climate policy, the outlook for corporate climate action, and more.... Read more about What Does Trump 2.0 Mean for Climate Change?

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

Please join us for the Fall 2024 Solar Geoengineering Lunchtime Seminar Series: Geopolitics and the Governance of Solar Geoengineering: High Stakes on an Over-Heated Planet... Read more about SGRP Lunchtime Seminar Series: Geopolitics and the Governance of Solar Geoengineering: High Stakes on an Over-Heated Planet

Location: HUCE 429, 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Challenges to Native Plants in Residential Landscapes

Location: HUCE 429, 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge

Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, there will be one or two brief talks followed by vegan dinner and discussion.... Read more about Salata Scholars Seminar Series: Challenges to Native Plants in Residential Landscapes

Location: MCZ 101, Gilbert Room, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge

Join the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology for a special lecture hosted by Andrew Knoll with Ron Milo from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel on The Biomass Distribution on Earth and the Impact of Humanity on It.... Read more about The Biomass Distribution on Earth and the Impact of Humanity on It

Location: CGIS South, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

In the seminar, Nilanjana Mukherjee will present her research on the Thar Desert in North-Western India. She will argue that the desert has evolved as a frontier zone due to British imperial transactions and stakes in the region and due to the politico-economic exigencies of a specific spatial cartographic logic of the colonial state. This rationale, format, and layout has come to be adopted by the present-day independent India. The desert’s location at the fringes, as though guarding the mainland, strengthens the imagination around its constructed identity as an altogether impervious...

Read more about “Unmapping the Thar: The Desert Reimagined” – with Mittal Institute Bajaj Fellow Nilanjana Mukherjee

Location: Zoom

The Salata Institute and the Harvard Alumni Association present Harvard Voices on Climate Change, a series featuring Harvard faculty and fellows working on different dimensions of the climate challenge. In this session, Fiamma Straneo, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, and Jerry Mitrovica, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, will explore the pressing issue of sea level rise.... Read more about Harvard Voices on Climate Change: Sea Level Rise