Join this Energy Policy Seminar featuring Ana Unruh Cohen, Senior Director for NEPA, Infrastructure and Clean Energy at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Unruh Cohen will give a talk on "Permitting Progress in Support of U.S. Clean Energy and Climate Goals." Attend virtually or in person.
All HGSE students, faculty, and staff interested in making our school healthier and more sustainable are encouraged to join the HGSE Green Team!
Educating during a changing climate raises significant challenges for educators and global citizens. How can educators help learners to understand the rare confluence of dynamic processes that lead to the habitability of our planet? Join Principal Research Scientist in Education, Tina Grotzer Ed.D. '93, as she discusses education on climate change and its existential threat to life on Earth.
The Harvard Forest, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and the Salata Institute for Climate & Sustainability present the 2023 Charles Bullard Lectures featuring Chris Field, Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Stanford University.
The Harvard Forest and the Harvard University Center for the Environment present the second of two 2023 Charles Bullard Lectures featuring Chris Field, Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Stanford University.
The Food Collage event aims to lower the barriers for learning about and engaging with food systems, biodiversity and climate change.
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.
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.
Hear from Christine Gschwendtner, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University, focusing on sustainable energy systems, as she provides insights into promising strategies for integrating electric vehicles (EVs) into the electricity system upon mass adoption.
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.
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.
