The Harvard Forest, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and the Salata Institute for Climate & Sustainability present the 2024 Charles Bullard Lectures featuring Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science, School of Geography and the Environment; Programme Leader, Ecosystems Group at the Environmental Change Institute, and the Director of the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests, University of Oxford.

André Hoffmann is Vice-Chairman of Roche, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. Roche was founded by the Hoffmann family in 1896. Peter Vanham is Editorial Director, Leadership at Fortune. Hoffmann and Vanham’s book, The New Nature of Business: The Path to Prosperity and Sustainability, explores how companies can balance business needs with impacts on nature, shareholders with stakeholders, and short-term vs. long-term profits.

The Salata Institute and the Harvard Alumni Association present an informative and dynamic discussion as part of the Harvard Voices on Climate Change virtual series. An interdisciplinary panel of Harvard experts tackles your most pressing questions on climate change, exploring the science, health impacts, design solutions, and policy strategies that shape our global response.

The Salata Institute and the Harvard Alumni Association present Harvard Voices on Climate Change, a series featuring Harvard faculty and fellows working on different dimensions of the climate challenge. In this session, Fiamma Straneo, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, and Jerry Mitrovica, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, explore the pressing issue of sea level rise. Professor Straneo discusses the impacts of Greenland's melting ice sheets, while Professor Mitrovica provides insights on broader sea level changes. The event is hosted by Jim Stock, Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability and Professor of Political Economy.

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.

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.

This week, the Climate Adaptation in the Gulf of Guinea Cluster held a workshop entitled, "Resilient Coasts: Sustainable Frameworks for Climate Adaptation in the Gulf of Guinea." The Cluster is considering climate adaptation strategies to coastal erosion in Abidjan, Accra, and Lagos that would be technically feasible, that could be implemented, and that would garner political support. The strategies include coastal defense to protect high value stretches of the coast; livelihood protection in situ, examining how to make coastal communities floodable but functional; and livelihood protection ex situ, the option of voluntary non-temporary resettlement of vulnerable coastal populations, either with or without compensation. An analysis of past and future sea level rise across the Gulf of Guinea and probabilistic projections of sea level change to 2100 CE will inform the Cluster’s understanding of the social and economic risks of erosion and flooding on six different vulnerable communities in these cities.

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.

SRM (solar geoengineering), deployed at scale, would affect every country in the world, but not necessarily equally. It could affect – for good or for ill - a nation’s security and stability, its economy and vital resources, and its social cohesion. But who would decide what the ideal temperature should be, and how? One thing is clear. That decision, if ever taken, will not be based on science alone. SRM is more than a potential tool to temporarily turn down the planet’s thermostat. It is inherently geopolitical; indeed, some postulate that SRM could be a new tool of geopolitical power and prestige. What do dozens of governments around the globe know and think of SRM? Why is interest in this transformational technology growing, and where might this lead? Is this climate politics as usual, or something different? As the planet continues to heat up, how might the world’s most climate-ravaged countries, and the world’s two superpowers, the US and China, respond? Finally, what does the second Trump administration’s rollback of climate action presage for the potential future use of SRM?