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Climate Adaptation in the Gulf of Guinea 
Severe impacts of sea-level rise are already a reality across Africa and, in particular, the Gulf of Guinea. Working with local counterparts and communities in Abidjan, Accra, and Lagos...
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Strengthening Communities
For many U.S. communities – from towns in West Virginia to Tribal Nations in the Pacific Northwest – the clean energy transition is changing everything. This Harvard-led initiative ...
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Climate Adaptation in South Asia 
Climate change is affecting South Asia – home to two billion people – in devastating ways. This Harvard-led initiative is bringing leading experts and stakeholders together, putting...
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Corporate Net-Zero Targets Project
While corporate net-zero commitments are surging, there is a lack of information and analysis about whether these corporate goals result in real emissions reductions. Harvard faculty ar...
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Reducing Global Methane Emissions
Reducing methane emissions can significantly reduce climate change and its impacts in the short term – giving the world time to “bend the curve” on CO2 emissions and seek longer-t...
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Through the creativity and expertise of its faculty, Harvard University can drive real-world climate solutions and prepare students for lives and careers shaped by the climate challenge. The Salata Institute’s goal is to provide faculty with the interdisciplinary connections, funding, and support they need to tackle complex climate problems – and to enhance and accelerate the impacts of their work through external engagement.

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Salata Institute Climate Research Clusters Call for Proposals
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. The problems are broad enough that their solutions represent significant progress in meeting the world’s climate challenge. Concept proposals due by April 1, 2024.
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Updated Call for Proposals: Salata Institute Seed Grant Program in Climate and Sustainability
The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University solicits proposals for funding under its Seed Grant Program in Climate and Sustainability. Proposals will be considered two times per year, with deadlines of the first Friday of October and February.
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The Harvard Climate and Sustainability Translational Fund
Harvard’s Climate and Sustainability Translational Fund propels climate and sustainability-related innovations towards startup formation.
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Side-event panels on reducing methane emissions, trade at COP29
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.
Action Accelerator Cluster Research News Methane
Mon, Nov 4, 2024

Fossil power and carbon capture: A looming legal showdown
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.
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Tue, Dec 3, 2024

Interview | Unpredictable rains erode food security gains
Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Chair Peter Huybers describes how changes to seasonal rainfall patterns hurt people facing food shortages.
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Mon, Nov 18, 2024

Side-event panels on reducing methane emissions, trade at COP29
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.
Action Accelerator Cluster Research News Methane
Mon, Nov 4, 2024

Climate Questions: What does wildfire smoke mean for our health?
Climate change is contributing to longer and more intense #wildfire seasons. So what does more wildfire smoke mean for our health? What can people do to protect themselves? Learn more from Loretta Mickley, a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Tue, Aug 27, 2024

An Update from the Standing Committee on Climate Education
An update from the chair of the Standing Committee on Climate Education at Harvard University.
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Mon, Nov 20, 2023

Harvard Medical School in Nature Medicine: Doctors Prepare for the Enormous Consequences of Climate Change
“Last year, Harvard Medical School voted to approve a climate curriculum theme, becoming one of the first universities in which this topic will be embedded into all four years of its regular clinical curriculum..” Read more about Harvard Medical School’s breakthrough climate curriculum efforts and the broader trend of climate in medical education in this recent Nature Medicine article.
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Mon, Aug 12, 2024

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