Harvard Climate Action Week invites climate experts, leaders, and stakeholders to come together and explore solutions to the most complex and challenging dimensions of the climate crisis. Events, in-person and online, dive deep into the policies, private actions, and leadership needed to drive further reductions in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. This week of events is hosted by the Climate Action Accelerator at the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University.
Today, the Salata Institute announced a third round of seed grant awards for work on understudied and emerging topics in climate and sustainability. The projects include research into new methods of direct air capture of carbon dioxide, the role animals play in global carbon cycles, new frameworks for climate migration, and more.
EPA released a final tailpipe emissions rule that sets new, more stringent emissions standards for greenhouse gas and criteria pollutants for light-duty and medium-duty vehicles. Read analysis from the Harvard Environmental and Energy Law Program.
Looking to better understand climate change as a justice issue? Aminta Ossom of Harvard Law School shares resources ranging from climate justice primers to in-depth storytelling about those working to address climate injustice through the courts and beyond.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has opened applications for the third annual Hydropower Collegiate Competition (HCC) and sixth annual Marine Energy Collegiate Competition (MECC). Click to learn more.
Read Steven Wofsy's op-ed in The Boston Globe on what MethaneSAT, the new methane-mapping satellite, will mean for global methane emissions reductions.
Insights from Harvard Kennedy School: Experts agree on two things when it comes to the clean energy transition: it will be hard getting to a net-zero future and failing to get there is not an option.
On March 6, 2024, the SEC narrowly voted to release its long-awaited final climate-related risk disclosure rule requiring public companies to report on material climate-related risks that affect the business and, for some large companies, greenhouse gas emissions. Sara Dewey, senior staff attorney with the Harvard Law School Environmental & Energy Law Program, reviews key components of the rule, including its legal authority, changes from the proposal, and the legal challenges already underway.
In late 2023, California passed two laws that will require public and private companies that do business in California to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and their climate-related financial risks. In January 2024, business groups filed a complaint challenging the laws. Sara Dewey and Abby Husselbee, attorneys at the Harvard Law School Environmental & Energy Law Program, explain the First Amendment, federal preemption, and dormant Commerce Clause challenges to these laws.