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Transforming the Food Systems — and Final Exams

Climate Change Teaching Fellow Mauro Morabito and students in GOV 1318 reflect on ways to transform food systems, and a unique approach to wrapping up a semester of learning.
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Mon, May 6, 2024

Professor Dimick’s Reading List for Climate Anxiety

More than two-thirds of Americans feel climate anxiety. Among young adults, a study published by The Lancet found, the figure tops 80 percent. Harvard Professor Sarah Dimick shares a reading list that just might help.
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Fri, Oct 6, 2023
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Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in the Era of Climate Change

Climate change is transforming business. It presents considerable risks to current business models, supply chains, and operational strategies — and offers immense opportunities for innovation, growth, and impact. In a new Harvard Business School course being taught by Professor George Serafeim this Fall, students will learn to navigate and make a difference in this complex environment. In a Q&A, Professor Serafeim discusses the forces upending business as usual and what he hopes his students will take away from the course.
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Wed, Jul 19, 2023

How to Create a Climate Venture

Want to create a climate startup? Join the “How to Create a Climate Venture” class at the Harvard i-lab. This course is for people who want to found a climate start up to tackle climate change, but do not yet have an idea or whose idea is nascent. Class is held virtually and is open to Harvard students, alums, faculty and staff as well as participants from other universities. Click here to learn more and register on the Harvard iLab website.
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Wed, Jul 5, 2023

Student Perspective: The Best Way to Spread a Climate Message? Wear It.

How can students talk about climate change in a way that sparks action, innovation, and change? This spring, a handful of students in GOV 1318, a new course titled “The Great Food Transformation,” took a fresh approach to climate communications. They used digital backpacks to start conversations about the food system and its impacts on the climate and our environment.
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Mon, Jun 26, 2023

Systems Thinking and Supply Chain Management: Climate, Poverty, and Human Rights

A Harvard Kennedy School course teaches future policy practitioners to take a systems thinking approach to understanding supply chains and service delivery, while accounting for the related environmental and social impacts of these processes.
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Tue, May 30, 2023

Mobility, Power, and Politics 

Africa’s Lake Chad is shrinking because of climate change and growing resource demands. As it shrinks, populations in surrounding Cameroon, Niger, Chad, and Nigeria that rely on the lake for their livelihoods are experiencing new risks. Professor Daniel Agbiboa’s research on conflicts arising from these changes in the Lake Chad Basin inspired the interdisciplinary course, “Mobility, Power, and Politics." In this course, students consider the interconnected social, political, psychological, and structural changes taking place and their relationship to climate change.
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Fri, May 26, 2023
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Politics of the Environment and Climate Change, GOV1722

In GOV1722, a new course, students aren’t just learning about climate policies in the classroom, they are seeing policy in action within local communities. The course challenges students to think critically and build practical skills necessary to addressing the climate challenge in a real-world setting.
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Tue, Apr 25, 2023
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Research at the Harvard Forest—Global Change Ecology-Forests, Ecosystem Function, the Future

In the fall, Harvard Freshmen have the opportunity to take “Research at the Harvard Forest-Global Change Ecology-Forests, Ecosystem Function, the Future.” The course immerses students in an active field research setting and allows for extended small group discussions and interactions with several leading global change scientists at one of the preeminent field research sites in the United States.
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Thu, Feb 23, 2023
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Innovative class teaches students how to navigate politics of climate change

How to make effective climate policy — and policymakers.
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Wed, Feb 22, 2023
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Arctic Initiative Hosts Indigenous Youth for Leadership Workshop

Two dozen Indigenous youth from across the circumpolar North visited Cambridge for the International Workshop on Indigenous Youth Leadership for the Changing Arctic. They joined Harvard Kennedy School students for the second half of IGA-67M: “Policy and Social Innovation for the Changing Arctic” for an intensive course in developing their own policy and social innovations to address issues in a region warming four times faster than the rest of the world.
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Mon, Feb 13, 2023

New Climate Lawyering Course

Many sectors are rapidly adapting to reduce emissions and address climate change, but our national laws, policies, and regulatory frameworks are far behind the curve. Lawyers will play a critical role in developing new legal frameworks to advance national climate goals. In the spring 2023 semester, Professor Richard Lazarus is teaching Climate Lawyering, which examines the constructive role that lawyers can play in addressing climate change, across most all legal practice areas.
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Mon, Feb 13, 2023