Location: Zoom & Geological Museum 102, Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

Bärbel Hönisch, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University in the City of New York, will give a talk (title TBA).... Read more about EPS Colloquium

Location: School of Engineering and Computing (SEC) LL2.224, 114 Western Ave., Cambridge

"Computational Challenges in Environmental Epidemiology: Embedding Spatial Data Science, Mobile Health Technology, and Deep Learning into Prospective Cohort Studies" with Peter James, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

... Read more about CRCS Seminar

March 22, 2023

New HUCE Environmental Fellow Anna Lea Albright and HUCE Faculty Associate Peter Huybers found evidence to confirm the hypothesis that Monet's paintings capture increasingly polluted skies during the Industrial Revolution... Read more about Scientists Confirm Long Held Theory About What Inspired Monet

April 17, 2023

A new study led by HUCE Faculty Associate Daniel Jacob uncovers that between 2010 and 2019, planet-warming methane pollution from the US oil and gas industry was 70% higher than the EPA's own estimates... Read more about The Oil and Gas Industry Is Emitting Way More of This Potent, Planet-Warming Gas Than the EPA Has Estimated

April 17, 2023

Writers Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams offer new perspectives on how to remake the world... Read more about Turning Climate Crisis Stories Into Narrative of the Future, Changed but Still Beautiful

April 20, 2023

In a recent panel and film screening hosted by HUCE, the director debates its merits as a climate change solution... Read more about Oliver Stone Wants You to Reconsider Nuclear Power

Location: 100F Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge

"Remote Sensing of Large Methane Emissions at Fine Spatial Scales: Lessons from Multiple Surveys across the US" with Daniel Cusworth, University of Arizona and Carbon Mapper.... Read more about Atmospheric & Environmental Chemistry Seminar

Location: Zoom & CGIS South, S020 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge

There is wide recognition that aquatic foods are critical contributors to a healthy diet, especially when it is sourced in a sustainable way. Join the Harvard Food Systems Initiative and hear from Christopher Golden, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Planetary Health, who studies the intersection of human and planetary health with a special focus on oceans and populations that rely on our fisheries for food security and well-being.

... Read more about Healthy Oceans and Healthy Diets

Location: Northwest Labs B101, 52 Oxford St., Cambridge

 

Yaniv Brandvain, Associate Professor, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, will present "The Interaction Between Patterns of Mating and the Process of Speciation."... Read more about OEB Seminar

Location: Room G02, Wexner Building, HKS, 79 JFK St., Cambridge & Zoom

Join the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs for a seminar featuring Predoctoral Research Fellow Lydia Zemke, who will explore successful case studies from Kenya and Costa Rica and discuss the challenges and opportunities of scaling up private investments in NBS.

... Read more about Unlocking Private Investment for Nature-Based Climate Solutions in Emerging Markets: Case Studies from Kenya and Costa Rica

Location: Zoom & S216 Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies invites you for a discussion with Ricardo Hausmann, Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, Director of the Harvard Growth Lab, HKS; Lenin H. Balza, Economist in the Infrastructure and Energy Sector of Inter-American Development Bank; and Araceli Clavijo, Researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council | conicet · GEISA (Grupo de Estudios e Investigaciones Socio Ambientales).... Read more about Green Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Inter-American Development Bank's Vision

Location: James Room East, Swartz Hall, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge

Larry L. Rasmussen, Christian Environmental Ethicist and Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, will discuss his latest book, The Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty’s a Sure Thing. ... Read more about Book Event: "The Planet You Inherit"

Location: Malkin Penthouse, Littuaer Building, 4th Floor, HKS, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Join the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia for a discussion about the Fukushima nuclear disaster with Research Fellow Martin Fackler, a writer and journalist in Asia for two decades, most recently as Assistant Asia Editor at The New York Times. Arn Howitt, co-director of the Program on Crisis Leadership at HKS, will serve as a discussant.... Read more about Dry Run for War: How Fukushima Changed Japan and Its Place in the World

Location: YouTube & Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

Gina McCarthy, the first-ever White House National Climate Advisor and former US EPA administrator, and James Stock, Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability and the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University, will present "The Future of Climate Action."... Read more about The Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture In American Foreign Policy

Location: Room L-332, HKS, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

"Decarbonization and Electrification in the Long Run" with Erin Mansur, Dartmouth College, Stephen Holland and Andrew Yates, University of North Carolina.  

... Read more about Harvard Seminar in Environmental Economics & Policy

Location: Belinda Sutton Quadrangle , Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

The Harvard Animal Law Society, GSAS Wellness, and Harvard Undergraduate Plant Futures invite you to the Food 4 Thought (F4T) Festival. This inaugural festival will spotlight plant-based restaurants in the local Boston/Cambridge area as well as the unique role Harvard plays in accelerating the transition to the plant-based food system. ... Read more about Food 4 Thought Festival

Location: Zoom

Xinyu Chen, Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, will present "Power Market Reform Coupled With Carbon Neutral Transition in China: Status and Prospects."... Read more about Harvard-China Project Research Seminar

April 19, 2023

The Harvard University Center for the Environment announces the 2023 class of Environmental Fellows: Anna Lea Albright, Conleigh Byers, Abby Ostriker, Roxana Shafiee, and Megan Wilcots. These fellows will join a group of scholars who will be beginning the second year of their fellowships. Together, the Environmental Fellows at Harvard will form a community of researchers with diverse backgrounds united by exceptional scholarship, intellectual curiosity, and a drive to understand some of our most imperative environmental challenges.... Read more about Introducing the 2023 Environmental Fellows

Location: Zoom & L-230 Gundle Family Classroom, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

The Growth Lab's "Development Talks" is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in economic development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy.

... Read more about Growth Lab Development Talk: Investment in the Energy Transition / Global and Domestic Dimensions

Location: HUH Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge & YouTube Livestream

Margaret Frank, Assistant Professor, Cornell University, will give a talk. Title TBA.... Read more about HUH Seminar