Can the federal government require power plants to capture carbon emissions and other pollutants? Andrew Mergen, a former appellate attorney at the Justice Department’s environmental division, unpacks what will be a landmark ruling.

Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Chair Peter Huybers describes how changes to seasonal rainfall patterns hurt people facing food shortages.

Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and Principal Investigator of the Salata Institute climate research cluster on reducing methane emissions, and Robert Stowe, Co-Director, will attend the Twenty-Ninth Conference of the Parties (COP-29) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Harvard Project will co-host two official side events at COP-29.