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Faculty

Herman Leonard

Herman Leonard

George F Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Management
Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration
Jason Furman

Jason Furman

Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy
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2024 Apr 01

When Youth Sue to Protect the Planet and their Health: Inside a Bold Legal Strategy to Fight Climate Change

6:00pm

Location: 

Zoom & Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston

Last summer, 16 young plaintiffs won a pioneering lawsuit against the state of Montana. Their claim: By failing to consider the climate impact of fossil fuel projects, the state had violated children’s rights to a clean and healthful environment.... Read more about When Youth Sue to Protect the Planet and their Health: Inside a Bold Legal Strategy to Fight Climate Change

2024 Apr 04

Is the Paris Agreement Working? With Cassie Flynn, Global Director of Climate Change at the United Nations Development Programme

4:00pm

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Zoom & Salata Institute Lounge, Belfer 3.5, 75 JFK St, Cambridge

Join the Salata Institute's Climate Action Accelerator for a conversation with Cassie Flynn, Global Director of Climate Change at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to hear insights from the front lines of implementing the Paris Agreement.... Read more about Is the Paris Agreement Working? With Cassie Flynn, Global Director of Climate Change at the United Nations Development Programme

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Event Videos

A Conversation About Climate & Solar Geoengineering

October 27, 2023 | Featuring Pascal Lamy, Chair of the Climate Overshoot Commission and Former Director-General of the WTO, and Dan Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Professor of Public Policy; and Co-Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, HKS. Hosted by the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program.... Read more about A Conversation About Climate & Solar Geoengineering

Managing the Risk of Climate Overshoot

October 19, 2023 | The Harvard Forest, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and the Salata Institute for Climate & Sustainability present the 2023 Charles Bullard Lectures featuring Chris Field, Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Stanford University.

Our Common Ground: Why America’s Public Lands Are a Political and Conservation Success

Nov 16, 2022 | The Harvard University Center for the Environment, the Salata Institute for Climate & Sustainability, and the Environmental & Energy Program at HLS present a book release and lecture by John Leshy, Emeritus Professor, University of California, Hastings College of the Law & Former Solicitor, US Department of the Interior (Clinton Administration)

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