Location: T-520 Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Hks Taubman Building, 79 JFK St., CambridgeJoin us for a candid and engaging conversation on the power of authenticity in climate leadership and how it can be used to drive meaningful change. We will examine real world insights and experiences from trailblazers in the climate action space, Miguel Sossa-Mardomingo, Vice President - Americas Sustainability GTM Lead, Capgemini, and Dr. David W. Cash, Former Regional Administrator for the United States Environmental Protection Agency's New England Office, who will discuss how integrity, empathy, and purpose can shape effective climate leadership. As part of the Center for Public... Read more about Leading with Purpose: Authenticity in Climate Action

Location: HUCE 440, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge MA

The Energy Seminar at Harvard series features weekly conversations with leading practitioners in climate and energy. Join on Monday evenings from 6:30-7:15pm at the Harvard University Center for the Environment to meet the CEOs, researchers, investors, and engineers who are driving decarbonization. On Monday 4/14, the Energy Seminar welcomes Dr. Wenxiao Huang, CEO of Feon Energy.

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Location: HUCE 440, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge MA

The Harvard Energy Seminar series features weekly conversations with leading practitioners in climate and energy. Join on Monday evenings from 6:30-7:15pm at the Harvard University Center for the Environment to meet the CEOs, researchers, investors, and engineers who are driving decarbonization. On Monday 2/24, the Energy Seminar welcomes Dr. Wenxiao Huang, CEO and co-founder of Feon Energy.... Read more about Harvard Energy Seminar: Wenxiao Huang

Location: Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Since the dawn of the atomic age, humanity has struggled with the inherent duality of atomic fission, with its awesome power to either benefit or obliterate life on earth. Waves of optimism and despair have been driven by the threat of the proliferation of nuclear weapons and their possible use, and by the hopes of a prodigious carbon-free energy source that has stumbled and lost public confidence in the process.... Read more about A New Nuclear Age?

Location: Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Join Madeline Murphy Turner for an introduction to a recent installation, Drawn to Earth: Contemporary Art and Environment in the Americas, which features more than 15 artworks from the collections, many of which are new acquisitions. Turner will delve into how and why contemporary artists across the Americas use drawing to contend with topics of the land, territory, and ecological crises—all while pushing the medium’s boundaries into the realms of conceptual and performance art.

This gallery talk is part of our New on View series, highlighting recent gallery installations and...

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Location: Massachusetts Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge

The Food 4 Thought Festival is a one-of-a-kind innovative food conference bringing together students from global universities to envision the future of the food system. Over the course of three days, F4T 2025 will feature speakers, thought leaders, researchers, food vendors, and companies from across Boston and around the world. Through impactful panels, workshops, and fairs, the festival aims to give students the tools and knowledge to help shape the future of food to be more sustainable, equitable, healthy, and cruelty-free. Register by March 31st to secure your tickets!

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Location: Austin Hall; 111 Classroom - West, 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Join the Harvard Environmental Law Society and the Chan School’s Public Health Environmental Justice Student Organization for a symposium featuring experts on climate change, public health, and environmental justice.

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Location: Austin Hall Room 101, Harvard Law School

Join the Environmental Law Society at the Harvard Law School and the Environmental Justice Student Organization for a symposium at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Please provide your information at the link to confirm your registration for the symposium. If you would like to submit an abstract for poster presentation at the event, please indicate your preference to be directed to the abstract submission form.
Please note that all attendees are responsible for their own transportation and lodging for the event. Poster presenters are responsible for preparing and...

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Location: R-414-ab David Ellwood Democracy Lab, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Join the Harvard Center for International Development (CID) for our special Earth Day Friday Speaker Series, featuring updates from CID's GEM Incubation Fund recipients. This event will delve into critical topics such as climate data equity, conflict fragility, and climate knowledge in Somalia, along with pioneering research on Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Harry Verhoeven, a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, Dr. Maimuna Mohamud Head of Practice, Research, Learning, and GESI (Gender Equality and Social...

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Location: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St, Cambridge

What are possible intersections between Harvard residential life and climate & sustainability? These conversations, organized by the Dean of Students Office, are small-group dinners to engage informally with climate practitioners. Topic for April 9: Climate Justice and Decolonial Pedagogies, with Mauro Morabito, former Head of Mission for the International Committee of the Red Cross and climate education facilitator.

Reserved to Winthrop House affiliates.

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Location: CGIS South Bldg, Rm S030, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge

The CMES Reframing Conflict: Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria in Context series presents:

Nisrin Elamin
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Toronto

In the agricultural Gezira region of central Sudan, the term khalla means open land or expanse and refers to communal land that is partly used for grazing animals or rain-fed farming; what is often referred to as ‘the commons.’ Beginning with the provocation that the khalla is “running away from us” due to large-scale land investments and agribusiness practices, this talk takes up...

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Location: Mignone Center for Career Success, 54 Dunster St, Cambridge

Join us on April 9th, to hear from Nisha Desai, MBA ’97, Founder & CEO of Intention, Jock Gilchrist, Vice President of Sustainability at JPMorgan Chase, and Vid Mićević, Investor at Collaborative Fund, reflect on their career, education, and current work in climate and sustainability finance and investment.... Read more about Careers in Climate Action Speaker Series: Careers in Climate and Sustainability Finance and Investment

Location: Virtual

Decision making in support of sustainability is influenced by many factors, but there is no doubt that knowledge is necessary for the effective pursuit of sustainability. Too often, however, that knowledge has been too little, too late, or even worse, not helpful at all. This virtual seminar will explore strategies for building a robust capacity to link knowledge with action that ensures knowledge is both useable and used.

The seminar will feature: Connie Nshemereirwe (Director of the...

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Location: Sever 213, 25 Harvard Yard, Cambridge

The Environmental Action Coalition is hosting an exciting career event next Tuesday, April 8, at 6pm with RMI.

RMI focuses specifically on market-driven clean energy work, which is great for those of you who are Econ majors/aspiring finance bros, those who are feeling somewhat disillusioned by recent changes in government, or those who just want to discuss next steps with climate policy.

RMI works with governments (including the White House), consulting firms, industry giants, tech companies, NGOs, etc...to drive influential changes both in the public and private sectors....

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Location: WCC 1019, Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Join the Harvard Human Rights Journal and the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic for a talk by Dr. Daniel Gustafson, Special Representative of the Director-General at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), former Deputy Director-General of the Organization, on “Ensuring the Right to Food in the Face of Climate Change: The Role of UN FAO.”

The talk addresses the interrelations between climate change and global hunger from the perspective of the UN FAO, highlighting how climate change exacerbates food insecurity and hinders the full realization of the right to...

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Location: HUCE Seminar Room 440, MCZ 4th Floor, 26 Oxford Street Cambridge

"Going Beyond Emissions Reduction: Climate Repair" with Dr. Shaun Fitzgerald OBE FREng, Director of the Centre for Climate Repair, Cambridge University.

Abstract: We will first briefly discuss the state of the climate, some of the recent changes, the trend in emissions and greenhouse gas (GHG) levels, and importantly the trajectories which are now considered by the IPCC. We will then investigate options for following different trajectories. We will discuss the role of GHG removal and outline some of the research being undertaken to progress the field independent of carbon markets...

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Location: Bowie Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge SH

Join the Weatherhead Center Canada Program for their Canada Seminar featuring Emma Gilheany, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Canada Program, and Affiliate, Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP).... Read more about Against Cryo Nullius: Icy Materialities and Nunatsiavummiut Refusal of the Settler State

Location: HUCE 440, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge MA

The Harvard Energy Seminar series features weekly conversations with leading practitioners in climate and energy. Join on Monday evenings from 6:30-7:15pm at the Harvard University Center for the Environment to meet the CEOs, researchers, investors, and engineers who are driving decarbonization. On Monday 2/24, the Energy Seminar welcomes Jim Cabot, Managing Partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures and alumnus of Harvard College and HBS.... Read more about Harvard Energy Seminar: Jim Cabot

Location: Rubenstein Building, Room 414 AB, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Passing environmental policy is difficult, because of the – reasonable – concern that it will increase costs. But implementation often leads to systemic changes that make environmental regulation cheaper and easier to implement than expected.... Read more about The Policy Is Just the Beginning: How Implementation Makes Environmental Policy Cheaper and Easier Than Expected

Location: Virtual

This presentation will examine the impact of climate change on health through patient cases, providing a framework for assessing climate-related health risks and discussing integrative approaches to care. It will also explore how environmental factors influence integrative medicine, including the role of nature-based therapies in supporting patient well-being, focusing on adapting these strategies for low-income communities and urban areas with limited access to green spaces.

Wynne Armand, MD
Associate Director, Mass General Center for the Environment and Health
Assistant...

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