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Landscapes of Methane: Photographs from Southwestern Pennsylvania

Julian Giordano, a 2025 graduate of Harvard College, explores the human and environmental dimensions of methane emissions through images and words on his website, launched in September 2025, “Landscapes of Methane: Photographs from Southwestern Pennsylvania”

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Tue, Mar 3, 2026

Listen to the recording from this Harvard Climate Symposium breakout session featuring Joseph Aldy, Harvard Kennedy School; Sasha Mackler, ExxonMobil Corporation; Robin Millican, Bipartisan Climate Trust; and Billy Pizer, Resources for the Future (RFF). Looking to the future, federal climate policy can learn from past experiences. Federal policy, state action, and strategies pursued by other countries highlight successes and failures. This panel explored forward-looking options for the next generation of Federal climate policy, drawing on those lessons in environmental, business, and political terms.

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Thu, Oct 9, 2025

Listen to this breakout session from the 2025 Harvard Climate Symposium featuring Daniel Bicknell, Maryland Department of Service and Civic Innovation; Seán Arthurs, EarthRights International; Elizabeth Gray, Audubon; Evan Kornbluh, RMI; Ujjwal Kumar, Quantum Alliance AI; Tom Polton, NV Sustainability LLC; and Angela Zhong, TPG - Y Analytics. The climate crisis touches every facet of society—and solving it demands the talents, tools, and insights of every field. Whether you're in finance, law, design, public health, engineering, education, the arts, or beyond, you have a role to play in shaping a livable future. Climate action isn’t limited to scientists and policy experts; it’s a calling—and an opportunity—for all.

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Thu, Oct 9, 2025

Listen to this breakout session from the 2025 Harvard Climate Symposium featuring Mary Berlik Rice, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Flor Amaya, City of Chelsea, MA; Zoe Davis, Climate Ready Boston, City of Boston, MA; Caleb Dresser, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and Amruta Nori-Sarma, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Extreme heat is an increasingly urgent public health problem in cities, where dense populations and built environments can intensify health risks for vulnerable communities. This panel explored how local initiatives are addressing public health and climate challenges related to extreme heat in urban environments. Panelists discussed real-life strategies that connect scientific research to equitable interventions, aiming to protect health and reduce disparities in cities. The session highlighted related Harvard Chan research, including work in Boston’s redlined communities.

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Thu, Oct 9, 2025

Listen to this breakout session from the 2025 Harvard Climate Symposium, featuring Stephen Ansolabehere; Harvard University; Francesca Dominici, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Melissa Finucane, Union of Concerned Scientists; Ryan Hathaway, Lawyers for Good Governance; Ana Martinez, Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science; and Hannah Perls, Harvard Law School. In a time of increasing environmental risk and political uncertainty, access to reliable government environmental data is more crucial than ever. This panel brought together the data rescue teams who worked to preserve vulnerable public datasets and the frontline practitioners who are putting that data to work in environmental justice, policy, and public health.

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Thu, Oct 9, 2025

Watch this breakout session from the 2025 Harvard Climate Symposium. Featuring Peter Tufano, Harvard Business School; Dave Jones, Climate Risk Initiative; Barney Schauble, greenthread; and Ishita Sen, Harvard Business School. As climate change accelerates the frequency and severity of natural disasters, it is reshaping one of the world’s most vital yet often overlooked sectors: insurance. Once defined by actuarial tables and historical loss data, the global insurance industry is now on the frontlines of an unpredictable future—where past patterns no longer guarantee future protection.

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Wed, Oct 8, 2025

Watch this breakout session from the 2025 Harvard Climate Symposium. Featuring Gage Hills, Harvard SEAS; Vijay Reddi, Harvard SEAS; and Yicheng Zhu, University of California, Berkeley. As computation becomes an increasingly significant component of global energy consumption, rethinking how we design and deploy computing systems is essential for climate progress. This session brought together SEAS faculty working across the computing stack, from circuits and architectures to networks and edge AI, to explore strategies for minimizing energy use while enabling intelligent, climate-supporting technologies. Topics include efficient data movement and computation, AI for grid intelligence, and ultra-low-power AI systems like TinyML. The session showcased how energy-aware computing can become a foundation for scalable, systems-level solutions to the climate crisis.

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Wed, Oct 8, 2025

Watch this breakout session from the 2025 Harvard Climate Symposium. Featuring Robert Stavins, Harvard Kennedy School; Jon Goldstein, Environmental Defense Fund; Daniel Jacob, Harvard University; Carrie Jenks, Environmental & Energy Law Program, Harvard Law School; and Vanessa Ryan, Chevron. High-quality data, available through transparent channels, is essential in efforts to reduce methane emissions. The quantity, quality, and transparency of data on emissions has increased dramatically in just the last few years. New satellites, including MethaneSat and Tanager-1, along with rapidly improving aerial and ground-based detection, are ushering in a new era of possibility for emissions reduction. Panelists – from Harvard, industry, and the NGO community – discussed these developments and how we might achieve progress even in a challenging policy environment.

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Wed, Oct 8, 2025

Watch this breakout session from the 2025 Harvard Climate Symposium. Featuring Sanjay Seth, Former Chief of Staff, US EPA Region 1; George Behrakis, Climate Solutions Fund; Jessica Moerman, Evangelical Environmental Network; and Aruni Ranaweera, Harvard Kennedy School. This session brought together emerging leaders from across the political spectrum to explore how the next generation is driving climate progress through dialogue, innovation, and collaboration. This session featured both conservative and progressive voices and focused on bridging divides and advancing durable, cross-partisan solutions.

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Wed, Oct 8, 2025

Watch this breakout session from the 2025 Harvard Climate Symposium featuring Elaine Buckberg, The Salata Institute; Tim Echols, Commissioner Georgia Public Service; Brent Gruber, JD Power; Philip Jones, Phil Jones Consulting LLC; and Carolyn Ryder, Electrify America. Panelists discussed the outlook for the public EV charging network, a lynchpin for EV adoption and its climate benefits, in the face of declining federal support for charging and EV adoption

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Wed, Oct 8, 2025

Emmanuel Akyeampong

West African officials link climate threats to rapid growth

Climate policy must fit “peculiar challenges,” they argue, linking rapid urban growth to erosion, deforestation and flooding.

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Thu, Sep 25, 2025

Public health experts share climate risks, solutions

As part of Harvard Climate Action Week (HCAW), held from Sept. 15-21, environmental health researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health looked at how artificial intelligence (AI) could impact climate and discussed ways to protect the public from extreme heat.

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Wed, Sep 24, 2025

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