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Tag: Harvard University Center for the Environment
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How inflation act may help rescue greenhouse-gas goals of repealed Clean Power Plan
In the wake of the demise of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, the Inflation Reduction Act may hold the seeds of its success.
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Coming to grips with planetary existential threat
Environmental Science and Public Policy takes multidisciplinary approach to complex existential threat.
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Harvard names vice provost for climate and sustainability
James H. Stock, a Harvard professor and economist known for his expertise on energy and environmental policy, has been named the University’s inaugural vice provost for climate and sustainability.
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Biden’s reversal of Trump’s environmental legacy swift, far-reaching
The Biden administration’s actions on the environment have been fast and broad, reversing many anti-environmental policies of the prior administration, despite being limited in many cases to executive action and targeted spending due to Congressional Republican opposition.
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Finding a way forward on climate change
If the causes and problems of climate change are entwined, then the solutions must be as well, according to an online panel of Harvard faculty.
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Solve ocean’s troubles and climate change too?
Experts from Harvard and beyond gathered Monday to discuss the oceans’ plight in a warming world, offering hopeful solutions despite the often bleak assessment prompted by warming, pollution, acidification, and coral bleaching.
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Eating our way to a sustainable future
Author Paul Greenberg said eating more and different seafood, emphasizing species that are less energy-intensive to harvest and high in omega-3 fats, can help answer the world’s food challenges in the coming decades.
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Think different, act more
Hal Harvey, the CEO of Energy Innovation, a San Francisco–based energy and environmental policy firm, encouraged an audience at Harvard to get involved in about innovative ways to address climate change.
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Getting from no nuclear to slow nuclear
Environmental fellow Michael Ford and climate scientist Daniel Schrag say that improved nuclear power could play an important role in U.S. energy production midcentury and beyond.
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Crunch time for the human race
Astrophysicist and cosmologist Martin Rees discusses his new book, “On the Future: Prospects for Humanity,” and shares his thoughts on climate change, artificial intelligence, robotics, and more.
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Students take the lead on new climate program
A new program, led by students, will help interested professional students at Harvard engage to address climate change.
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Public lands ‘a priceless legacy’ for future
Public lands owned and managed by the federal government are not a land grab, as some activists claim, but rather the result of a practice that goes back to the nation’s founding, a former Interior Department official says.
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Expanding the reach of the bionic leaf
With eye on population growth, postdoc Kelsey Sakimoto teamed up with “bionic leaf” developers on a project to aid agriculture in developing world.
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Climate made scary
Journalist David Wallace-Wells and others debated the most effective way to communicate climate urgency in a Harvard discussion.
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Five-minute warnings
The Harvard University Center for the Environment has produced 35 videos in which experts in various fields describe work related to climate change.
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Bringing big data to the farm
Digital technology and big data will power the next big advance in the business of farming, the head of a “digital agriculture” firm told a Harvard audience.
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No cookie-cutter fixes on air pollution
A Nobel Prize-winning chemist has called for additional research into the air pollution blanketing the world’s megacities, saying that solutions found in the developed world’s cities are not likely to apply in other places.
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Ex-EPA official sees narrow openings for climate progress
In a Harvard talk, ex-EPA official Robert Perciasepe outlined some narrow openings for bipartisanship on environmental issues.
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Global concerns on climate change
Harvard experts gather to discuss climate change in all its complexity, and share some surprising views.
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Fishing gaps called malnutrition threat
Declining fish catches around the world have set off concerns about malnutrition, especially among the poor.
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Targeting the ills of climate change
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry helped launch a new Harvard climate change and global health initiative Thursday, saying that climate change impacts almost always affect human health.
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Altered oceans
Proper management can bring species back from the brink and create healthier ocean ecosystems, experts said during a Center for the Environment panel.
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Sick planet, sick people
Harvard scientists are helping launch a new initiative to foster collaboration among scientists working at the intersection of the environment and health.
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To sample climate concerns, look at nature
A panel of climate change experts at Harvard said that nature is telling us where we need to make changes to lessen future climate change impact: the places flooded or otherwise damaged in past storms.
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Students bring fresh perspective to environmental issues
Each year the Harvard University Center for the Environment awards funding to students who have an interest in environmental and energy research. The students’ backgrounds vary as widely as their topics.
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Bullish on clean energy
Physicist Amory Lovins outlined a path to a clean-energy future in the United States during a talk at the Kennedy School.
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Let’s talk climate change
The Harvard University Center for the Environment is sponsoring Climate Week, featuring breakfasts with scientists working on the problems along with a variety of climate-centered activities, from talks by prominent scientists to poetry readings to informal gatherings.
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Plan to toughen emissions rules faces tough fight
Professors Jody Freeman and Richard Lazarus came together to discuss the legal future of the nation’s most ambitious action on climate change to date.
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Studying energy, environment
Beginning this fall, Harvard undergraduates will be able to select a secondary field of study in energy and environment, which will allow students in an array of concentrations to gain exposure to issues such as climate change.
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Another step in the wrong direction
Climate specialists came together at the Geological Lecture Hall to consider a dangerous milestone in carbon dioxide levels.
