The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and the Harvard Alumni Association invite you to the next installment of Harvard Voices on Climate Change, a virtual series showcasing Harvard faculty and fellows on different dimensions of the climate challenge.

This session will spotlight two cornerstones of U.S. climate policy: the EPA’s Endangerment Finding, which underpins federal authority to regulate greenhouse gases, and the Department of Energy’s Climate Science Report, which provides essential assessments of climate risks and impacts. Harvard faculty experts will examine the legal, scientific, and economic foundations of these measures and their current implications for climate action and regulation.

Speakers
--Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law; Director, Environmental and Energy Law Program, Harvard Law School
--Peter Huybers, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering
--James Hammitt, Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences, Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Student groups interested in applying to the Salata Institute's Climate Collaboration Grant Program should have members attend one or both of the Climate Connection Events that will be hosted as part of the program. Student leaders will have the opportunity to present speed pitches about their organization, with the purpose of sparking connection and inspiring collaboration with others in the room. The presentations will be followed by a networking hour. Dinner will be provided.

Please join us for lunch to converse with Carr-Ryan Center Director Mathias Risse alongside César Rodríguez-Garavito about his new book: Climate Change on Trial: Mobilizing Human Rights Litigation to Accelerate Climate Action.

César Rodríguez-Garavito is Professor of Law and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. He is the founding director of the Earth Rights Research & Action (TERRA) Clinic and the More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Program. Professor Rodríguez-Garavito is an Earth rights and human rights scholar and a field lawyer whose work focuses on international environmental law, Indigenous peoples’ rights and more-than-human rights. His contributions to Earth rights have been recognized with a More-Than-Human Fellowship by the London Design Museum and a spot in the UN Museum’s Top 10 Culture for Impact 2024 List. He is the author, most recently, of Climate Change on Trial: Mobilizing Human Rights Litigation to Accelerate Climate Action (Cambridge Univ. Press).