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Understanding Hurricane Milton

Salata Institute Conference Room, Floor 3.5, Belfer, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, United States

Join the Salata Institute for an informal discussion with Harvard experts on Hurricane Milton. Dan Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, will address the impacts of climate change on hurricanes, generally, and what we can know about the role warming oceans may have played in intensifying Hurricane Milton. Satchit Balsari, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Co-Director of CrisisReady, will speak to the impacts of the storm on human health and displacement and what can be expected as the recovery progresses.

Book Talk: Climate Capitalism by Bloomberg’s Akshat Rathi

Salata Institute Conference Room, Floor 3.5, Belfer, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, United States

Join the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability to hear from Bloomberg's senior climate reporter Akshat Rathi. He will discuss his new book, Climate Capitalism: Winning the Race to Zero Emissions and Solving the Crisis of Our Age. In a journey across five continents, Rathi brings people, policy, and technology together and tracks the unlikely heroes driving the fight against climate change. The discussion will be moderated by Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability.

Salata Institute Climate Research Cluster Info Session I

Salata Institute Conference Room, Floor 3.5, Belfer, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, United States

The Salata Institute is committed to supporting research that promises to make a real-world impact on the climate crisis. The Climate Research Clusters Program delivers on that commitment by funding research about complex climate problems that produces useful and practical solutions. Clusters comprise interdisciplinary, cross-School teams of researchers, whose varied expertise is required to address the complexity of the problems that they seek to solve.