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Why Climatic Uncertainty Matters to Building Energy Performance: Case Studies in a Subtropical High-Density City

Pierce Hall 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Sheng Liu, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-China Project

Speaker Bio: Dr. Sheng Liu is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University who works on climate-responding architecture design and low-carbon city design. His research interests include sustainable architecture design, building performance simulation and optimization, climate change and building adaptation, urban microclimate and indoor thermal comfort. He received his Ph.D. in Architecture from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Architecture, the University of Hong Kong. He had worked as an architect in mainland China before starting academic research. Dr. Liu has published more than 20 leading peer-reviewed scientific journal publications for the past five years such as in Building and Environment, Sustainable Cities and Society, Energy and Buildings, including two ESI highly citied papers. He is also the recipient of Postgraduate Research Output Award of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021 and 2023 Green Building Award of HKGBC. For more information, visit his website.

Sponsored by Harvard-China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

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Climate and Sustainability Translational Fund Info Session

Pierce Hall 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join for an info session about the 2024 Climate and Sustainability Translational Fund. Learn about the fund's benefits and important deadlines. Open to Harvard affiliates only. Pizza and refreshments provided.

International Mitigation Finance: Carbon Mitigation, Welfare, and Optimal Recipient Design

Pierce Hall 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Naixin Huang is a Ph.D. candidate in economics from Tsinghua University. Her research with HCP research associate Dr. Mun S. Ho and visiting Prof. Jing Cao focuses on the global carbon price floor's welfare effects and optimal design. The 2°C goal is challenging to reach, and it will be essential to consider the international differences in mitigation costs and benefits. IMF (2021) proposes a system of global carbon prices in which countries at different economic levels assign different carbon prices. Using a global trade model, she and colleagues seek to illustrate the impact of such a differentiated price floor system. Then, they seek an alternative design for the worldwide carbon price floor. Besides the global carbon price floor, she and visiting Prof. Jing Cao also researched international climate finance’s welfare effects and optimal design.

Where are the emissions: Unravelling small and large methane sources in the US oil and gas sector

Pierce Hall 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Worldwide concerns over the catastrophic impacts of unmitigated climate change have motivated governments, industry, and interested stakeholders toward the development, adoption, and implementation of strategic actions to quickly reduce the global emissions of climate warming pollutants. This presentation will unpack the past decade of scientific research on US oil and gas methane emissions, exploring the various methane emissions measurement approaches across multiple spatial scales as well as the major themes in the literature regarding the characteristics of facility-level methane emissions, basin-to-basin variability, and the relative importance of small methane sources compared to large methane emitters.