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Event Series Energy Policy Seminar

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

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.

Event Series Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series

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

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.

Event Series Harvard Speaks On Climate Change

Harvard Speaks On Climate Change: Satellite Detection of Methane Emissions

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 the inaugural session, Professors Daniel Jacob and Steven Wofsy will delve into their groundbreaking research on the satellite detection of methane emissions, shedding light on the implications of their data and developments for future greenhouse gas mitigation strategies. 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.

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.

Event Series Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series

Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series: Ben Webster and Jason Neff on Decarbonization and Innovation

Harvard University Center for the Environment 26 Oxford 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.

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.

Event Series Climate and Education Action Series

The Climate and Education Action Series: Dinner with Tara Houska

The Harvard College equity, diversity, and inclusion team is proud to have secured a Johnson Climate Action Grant, whereby we are exploring climate justice. We are hosting a series of events across the academic year that center the intersections of climate justice and empowering members of the College to engage in reflection and move to action. We are excited to invite a small group of College students to dinner with tribal rights attorney and founder of the Giniw Collective, Tara Houska, on Friday, November 3rd at 5:30 PM following the "Responsibility and Repair: Legacies of Indigenous Enslavement, Indenture, and Colonization at Harvard and Beyond Evening” led by the Harvard University Native American Program, in partnership with The Radcliffe Institute. Please follow this link to recommend students who might be particularly interested in attending and engaging with this dynamic leader on the power of her activism, and her inspiring impact.

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.