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FOR CLIMATE & SUSTAINABILITY

The solutions are all around us

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability serves as a fulcrum for collaboration across Harvard’s many areas of expertise, pursuing practical, real-world solutions that address all aspects of the climate crisis.

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Featured Events

Disentangling Climate and Development Finance

Join the Belfer Center’s Environment and Natural Resources Program for an upcoming webinar, where we will present and seek input on our research that examines the intersection of climate and developme…
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Online / Virtual
Calendar event
Thu, Jan 30, 2025

Salata Institute Spring 2025 Open House

Join Salata Institute staff, Salata Student Ambassadors, and other climate-minded students from across Harvard’s schools at the Institute’s Spring 2025 Open House! Learn about our student …
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
In-Person / Bell Hall B-500, HKS, 79 JFK St, Cambridge
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Wed, Feb 5, 2025

FEATURED NEWS

Salata Institute 2024 Year-In-Review

In 2024, the Salata Institute launched and supported 44 interdisciplinary climate and sustainability research initiatives led by 65 faculty from across Harvard University; hosted thousands of students, alumni, and climate practitioners at over 50 events and convenings; and delivered new climate solutions, data, and ideas.
Action Accelerator Cluster Research News
Fri, Dec 13, 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.
Blog
Tue, Dec 3, 2024

Recording: What Does Trump 2.0 Mean for Climate Change?

Harvard faculty discuss the possible implications of the 2024 U.S. elections for U.S. and global climate policy, the outlook for corporate climate action, and more.
News
Wed, Dec 4, 2024

From Baku to Brazil: Key Takeaways from COP29 and the Road to COP30

Harvard Students and Faculty share their key takeaways and perspectives from the UN Climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan. This blended panel analyzes progress around international climate negotiations and discuss what lies ahead for COP30 in Brazil.
News
Tue, Dec 10, 2024
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Climate Research Clusters

The new Climate Research Clusters program will support ambitious, university-wide endeavors that produce useful and practical solutions to pressing climate problems. Research clusters will represent interdisciplinary efforts to take on climate problems that are narrow enough to ensure concrete solutions, but broad enough to ensure significant progress in meeting the world’s climate challenge. The Salata Institute is currently soliciting new cluster proposals. Concept proposals are due by April 1, 2024.

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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, this Harvard-led initiative is producing new measuring sea-level rise and its associated costs in the region and identifying viable adaptation strategies.
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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 is conducting new research and working with stakeholders to better understand the social and political dimensions of the shift from fossil fuels and develop playbooks for effective, equitable, and community-driven energy development.
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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 vital new data sets and other tools into the hands of those confronting extreme heat and other climate impacts in South Asia.
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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-term solutions. A Harvard-led team of experts is working directly with leaders in government, business, and beyond to translate new research into meaningful action.
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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 are developing new tools – including groundbreaking firm- and plant-level datasets – and strategies to better understand and strengthen corporate climate action.
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Climate Action Accelerator

The Climate Action Accelerator will serve as a resource and partner to the full spectrum of stakeholders wrestling with the most difficult and divisive climate questions, building consensus for climate solutions grounded in Harvard’s research and expertise.

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Research Drives Solutions

AI, energy demand, and regulators: A conversation with Le Xie

Harvard professor says energy regulators must get creative as computing demands from artificial intelligence strain the grid.
News
Wed, Oct 23, 2024

Finding the fingerprints that explain sea-level rise

Geophysicists don their detective caps to project variations in future sea-level rise around the world.
News
Thu, Oct 17, 2024

Crossed Wires: A Salata Institute-Roosevelt Project Study of the Development of Long-Distance Transmission Lines in the U.S.

A new Salata Institute-Roosevelt Project study examines the regulatory, political, and social factors that shape long-distance transmission development and offers five core findings.
Cluster Research News White Paper Harvard Climate Action Week
Tue, Jun 11, 2024
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The Salata Institute

The Salata Institute supports interdisciplinary research that leads to real-world action, including high-risk/high-reward projects by researchers already working in the climate area and new endeavors that make it easier for Harvard scholars, who have not worked on climate problems, to do so.

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An Opportunity to Take Action

For students and alumni, the Salata Institute will serve as a gateway to information about ways to contribute to climate and sustainability efforts on campus and beyond.

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Are you hosting a Harvard-affiliated event that is related to climate change and/or sustainability? Please submit your event to the Salata Institute event calendar using this quick form! We look forward to sharing your event with the Harvard community.

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