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The Office for Sustainability

About OFS

The Office for Sustainability

The Office for Sustainability is comprised of a team of professional sustainability staff dedicated to…

Jobs at the Harvard Office for Sustainability

Explore available job opportunities at the Harvard Office for Sustainability.

Harvard’s updated Sustainability Action Plan identifies priorities, strategies

This strategic roadmap is built around three pillars of climate, equity, and health, and offers…

Move Out 2024: Donate Items and Reduce Waste

Sustainability by the numbers

Climate Change: Our Global Experiment

Climate Change in Education

A cutting-edge methane monitor

Forget ‘doomers.’ Warming can be stopped, top climate scientist says

Powering the energy transition

Experts agree on two things when it comes to the clean energy transition: it will…

Sustainability Spotlight: Q&A with Mohit Rauniyar, Ed. M. ’24

Mohit Rauniyar is an Adrian Cheng Fellow and Master of Education (Ed. M.) candidate at…

A playbook for policy climate change

Leah Stokes, the 2023–2024 Jeffrey S. and Margaret Mais Padnos Fellow and a professor of…

How Air Pollution Affects Our Brains

At Harvard, an expert panel discussed how air pollution affects dementia, learning, mental health and…

Letter from COP28

Junior and climate activist Angela Zhong details racing through security lines, talking oil palm deforestation,…

12 Student Takeaways from the 2023 Climate Symposium

Afomia Hunde, a GSD student and CSSL member, writes her key takeaways from attending the…
May

16

Thursday
1:00 pm-3:00 pm GMT+0000

Open to the Public

Mobility Collage

Join us for the fun, interactive climate workshop “Mobility Collage”, based on the science of the IPCC, ADEME, and played for the first time at Harvard. The Mobility Collage is a collaborative game-workshop centered on collective intelligence, similar in format to the Climate Fresk.
May

16

Thursday
5:30 pm-8:30 pm GMT+0000

Open to the Public

Planetary Boundaries Fresco

Join us for the fun, interactive climate and ecosystems game-workshop “Planetary Boundaries Fresco”, based on the science of the Stockholm Resilience Center’s Planetary Boundaries, and played for the first time at Harvard. The Planetary Boundaries Fresco is a collaborative game-workshop centered on collective intelligence, similar in format to the Climate Fresk.
May

21

Multi-day Event

Open to the Public

Harvard University Commencement Week

commencement

Explore the Harvard University Commencement Week Schedule. The College and each graduate/professional school hosts additional events unique to their community.

June

10

Multi-day Event

Open to Harvard Community

Harvard Climate Action Week | 2024

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Climate Action Week
Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability

Harvard Climate Action Week invites climate experts, leaders, and stakeholders to come together and explore solutions to the most complex and challenging dimensions of the climate crisis. Events, in-person and online, dive deep into the policies, private actions, and leadership needed to drive further reductions in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. This week of events is hosted by the Climate Action Accelerator at the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University.