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    Energy Policy Seminar: “The Future is Very Bright and Every Day is a Freaking Crisis: An Up-Close Look at the Clean Energy Transition”

    Energy Policy Seminar
    Rubenstein Building 414AB 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Jason Grumet, Chief Executive Officer of the American Clean Power Association. Grumet will give a talk on "The Future is Very Bright and Every Day is a Freaking Crisis: An Up-Close Look at the Clean Energy Transition." Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

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    Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series: Gaurab Basu on a Career in Environmental Justice and Health Equity

    Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series
    Mignone Center for Career Success 54 Dunster Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Interested in a career in climate and sustainability? This Fall semester, the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability is launching the Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series, featuring leading climate and sustainability practitioners — many of them Harvard alumni — from a broad range of industries and sectors.

    Speakers will reflect on their work and career path, providing students from across Harvard with valuable insights needed to launch a climate career. Each event will include a one hour Q&A with the speaker followed by a dinner reception.

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    A Conversation About Climate and Solar Geoengineering

    Bell Hall (B-500), Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, United States

    As the climate continues to change, discussions about climate policy also continue to evolve. Recognition of worsening climate impacts is giving rise to new conceptualizations of the problem and new proposals for managing and reducing risks. The recent report Reducing the Risks of Climate Overshoot from the Climate Overshoot Commission, chaired by Pascal Lamy, puts the notion of climate overshoot at the center of the debate, and recommends a number of actions, including related to solar geoengineering, to reduce the likelihood, magnitude, and duration of overshoot. Join us for this fireside chat featuring Pascal Lamy and Larry Summers, who will discuss the contents of this new report—including its treatment of solar geoengineering—in the context of preparations for the upcoming COP28 in Dubai and broader trends in climate policy and politics.

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    Climate Justice Universities: Another Education Is Possible

    A presentation from 2023–2024 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow Jennie C. Stephens

    Jennie C. Stephens is the Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy at Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. She is the author of “Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy,” which argues that effectively addressing the climate crisis requires diversifying leadership and redistributing wealth and power to move toward a more integrated, holistic transformative climate justice approach.

    At Radcliffe, Stephens is completing her book manuscript, provisionally titled “Climate Justice University: Another Education Is Possible,” which reimagines how higher education could accelerate transformative social innovation toward a more just, healthy, and stable fossil fuel–free future. The book proposes a paradigm shift to leverage the untapped potential of institutions of higher education to advance systemic social change to reduce growing health inequities, economic injustices, and climate vulnerabilities.

  • Graphic that discusses: Free Hybrid Book Presentation Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability Monday, November 6, 6:00–7:00 pm ET; Advance registration required for both in-person and online attendance Haller Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Saleem H. Ali, Chair, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment at the University of Delaware and a senior fellow at the Columbia University Center on Sustainable Investment

    Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability

    Haller Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust. It is also ubiquitous in the modern world, from aircraft to soda cans. Today, the efficiency with which we use—and reuse—aluminum is vital to addressing key environmental challenges and understanding humanity’s fraught relationship with the earth. In Soil to Foil (Columbia University Press, 2023), Saleem Ali tells the extraordinary story of aluminum.

  • Gender and climate change: an intersectional approach from Latin America and the Caribbean

    Tsai Auditorium

    Join a two-part event that aims to create a space for an overview of the intersection between climate change and gender—emphasizing the need for a nuanced understanding of its impacts in Latin America & the Caribbean—and to share efforts on how addressing gender disparities can enhance climate resilience, mitigation, and adaptation efforts.

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    Energy Policy Seminar: “Synthesis of Evidence Yields Higher Social Cost of Carbon Due to Model Extensions and Uncertainties”

    Energy Policy Seminar
    Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Frances Moore, Associate Professor and the Hurlstone Presidential Chair in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California Davis. In a talk entitled "Synthesis of Evidence Yields Higher Social Cost of Carbon Due to Model Extensions and Uncertainties," Moore will present her recent research on the social cost of carbon in the context of U.S. government estimates and the recent proposed update from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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    “Wild Life” Film Screening and Discussion

    James Room, Schwartz Hall 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Free and open to the public, but registration is required.

    Join us for a public screening of Oscar-winning filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's extraordinary film "Wild Life"—a story of love, wildness, and restoration in Chili and Argentina. The film follows conservationist Kris Tompkins on an epic decades-spanning love story as wild as the landscapes she dedicated her life to protecting.

    A discussion will follow the screening. Special guests include Kris Tompkins and Chai Vasarhelyi in conversation with guest curator Geralyn Dreyfous and HDS writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams.

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    The Conservation of Catastrophe: An Agenda for Research

    CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge

    Saptarishi Bandopadhyay is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. He is a faculty affiliate of the Science, Technology & Society Program at Harvard University, a research Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University, and a Senior Fellow at Melbourne University Law School. Saptarishi holds a doctorate from Harvard University, LLMs from Harvard Law School and American University’s Washington College of Law, and a BALLB (Hons.) from the National University of Juridical Sciences, India. Saptarishi has received awards and fellowships from the Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council, the American Society for Legal History, the American Society for Environmental History, the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, and Brown University. Saptarishi’s writing has appeared in encyclopedias, edited volumes, and in legal and interdisciplinary journals.

  • Harvard Speaks on Climate Change: Climate & Health

    Zoom

    The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and the Vice Provost Office for Advances in Learning present Harvard Speaks on Climate Change, a new series featuring Harvard faculty working on different dimensions of the climate challenge. In this upcoming session, Professor Kari Nadeau will delve into the critical intersection of climate and health. Her insights will shed light on the significance of this relationship, especially as we approach COP28, where the topic of health is being addressed for the first time. Professor and Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability Jim Stock will host. This series is part of the collection of VPAL Signature Events and is co-sponsored by the Harvard Alumni Association.