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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: 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: 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...

Read more about "The khalla is running away from us”: Gulf Capital, Deficient Deserts and Property-Making in Central Sudan

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: 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
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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...

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

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...

Read more about Research Seminar - Green Growth: New Research Insights from Adopting & Producing Green Technologies

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