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: Virtual

Decision making in support of sustainability is influenced by many factors, but there is no doubt that knowledge is necessary for the effective pursuit of sustainability. Too often, however, that knowledge has been too little, too late, or even worse, not helpful at all. This virtual seminar will explore strategies for building a robust capacity to link knowledge with action that ensures knowledge is both useable and used.

The seminar will feature: Connie Nshemereirwe (Director of the...

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Location: Sever 213, 25 Harvard Yard, Cambridge

The Environmental Action Coalition is hosting an exciting career event next Tuesday, April 8, at 6pm with RMI.

RMI focuses specifically on market-driven clean energy work, which is great for those of you who are Econ majors/aspiring finance bros, those who are feeling somewhat disillusioned by recent changes in government, or those who just want to discuss next steps with climate policy.

RMI works with governments (including the White House), consulting firms, industry giants, tech companies, NGOs, etc...to drive influential changes both in the public and private sectors....

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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...

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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...

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Location: Zoom & GCC E4, Gutman Conference Center, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge

Laura A. Schifter and Jonathan Klein highlight the many ways in which K-12 schools and students have tremendous potential to advance solutions on environmental issues, and they provide frameworks for enacting change, in Students, Schools, and Our Climate Moment. Schifter and Klein demonstrate how the effects of climate change intersect with US public schools on multiple levels—for example, schools must prepare students to face the challenges of an uncertain future, accommodate disruptions brought about by extreme weather...

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Location: Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge

This is a special workshop organized by Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University and Technical University of Madrid. University of Naples Federico II and representatives for the Spanish Government, among others are also co-organizers and attendees to the event.

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Read more about Women and Girls in the Post-War and Post-Disaster Rebuilding of Peaceful, Sustainable Homes, Cities And Territories

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: Virtual & Perkins, Rubenstein 429, HKS, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

The Growth Lab's Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.

Speaker: Samuel Rosenow, Economist in the Economic Policy Research department at the International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Samuel Rosenow is an Economist in the Economic Policy Research department at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). His applied research examines trade, value chains and investment, providing evidence-based policy recommendations to advance private sector development...

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Location: Virtual

In this session, Carrie Jenks, Executive Director of Harvard Law School’s Environmental & Energy Law Program, and Richard Lazarus, Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law, will examine the legal and policy implications of recent EPA rollbacks.... Read more about Harvard Voices on Climate Change: EPA Rollbacks & the Future of Environmental Protection

Location: Zoom

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability runs the COP Student Observers Funding Program each year to provide financial support for students who manage to secure Blue Zone credentials to attend the annual UNFCCC's Conference of the Parties. During this session, attendees will learn about COP, and hear more about the funding program including key dates, available support, and applicant qualifications. The session also covers important information and advice about securing a badge from an accredited observer organization.

Open to Harvard Students. Visit the...

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Location: Littauer Building, Belfer Center Library, Room 369, 79 JFK St, Cambridge

A discussion of public lands, Indigenous peoples, climate change, and the Trump administration's plan to unleash "Alaska's resource potential"
Open to the Harvard Community

Visit the event page for more information and to register.

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