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Climate change is an urgent and multifaceted challenge facing all of society.

Harvard faculty teach an expanding array of courses examining the many dimensions of this shared challenge. Explore courses in climate and sustainability ranging from economics and English to public health and climate science. 

 

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IGA 455

Climate Leadership: Persuasion, Advocacy and Negotiation

In this perilous moment in human history, the world desperately needs leaders with the courage, drive and hardball political skills to fight climate change and help restore the natural world. Environmental leaders must also recognize how marginalized communities suffer disproportionately from pollution and climate change. Leadership is difficult in any enterprise, but it is especially difficult for environmental leaders who face opponents with vastly more power and money.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
HLS 3094

Climate Change and the Politics of International Law

This course explores the varied roles that international lawyers and international institutions have played in shaping responses to climate change, the competing legal projects and strategies that they have developed to do so, and the shifting geopolitical contexts in which this work is taking place.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
E-PSCI 231

Climate Dynamics

The course covers climate dynamics and climate variability phenomena and mechanisms, and provides hands-on experience running and analyzing climate models, as well as using dynamical system theory tools.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Engineering Physical Sciences Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
SES 5509

Spatial Design Strategies for Climate Migration

We will examine climate migration through selected case studies in climate hotspots in the Sahel and the Pacific Islands, focusing on emerging migration trends: 1) cross-border migration, 2) internal migration, and 3) urban-to-rural migration. Additionally, we will explore holistic views of displacement and risk overlaps, including areas where conflict and climate change intersect.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
CE 11

StudioLab on Creativity and Entrepreneurship

Using an interdisciplinary exploration of the liberal arts, you will develop and apply transformative ideas to tackle today’s societal challenges such as racial injustice, climate change, and strained health and wellbeing.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Business Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
HO 705

Climate Change, Justice, and Beneficence

In this seminar we discuss justice and beneficence near and far, as formulated in views of how benefits and burdens should be distributed within the borders of a just society, and as further brought to bear concerning sharing and stewardship to benefit and prevent harm to peoples and generations distant from us in space and time.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Arts & Humanities Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
AFRAMER 143Y

African Landscape Architecture: Alternative Futures for the Field

A central aim of this seminar is to reveal the plurality of ways landscapes are shaped across the African continent and how they help mitigate the impacts of changing climates and social injustice now and in the future.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
GOV 1318

The Great Food Transformation: Food Systems and Politics

This course will explore the costs, politics, and solutions in our global food system, with a focus on the United States.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
SES 5409

Climate Justice

The class will argue for the necessity of studying theories of justice, inequality, and structural violence along with climate science, policy, and international diplomacy. In our search for climate justice, the class will trace various forms of climate activism within the history of environmental movements, explore non-Western forms of knowledge as key critiques and logics of action, and evaluate concrete suggestions for radical reform. We will discuss how climate justice as a framework of concern is both universal and specific, and we will critically engage ideas of justice at different scales, from the local to the global, with careful attention to context. We will ultimately ask what new kinds of practices, knowledges, and collaborations are necessary to build more just and responsible relationships between people and the nonhuman world, and with each other.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
E-PSCI 166, ESE 166

State-of-the-Art Instrumentation in Environmental Sciences

This course will showcase how novel technologies have allowed fascinating new insights into key aspects of our environment that are of high societal importance. Students will gain both an understanding of topics such as climate change and air pollution as well as detailed knowledge of the design and underlying principles of environmental instrumentation, especially via the hands-on laboratory sessions.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
IGA 415M

Financing the Clean Energy Transition

Avoiding the most catastrophic impacts of climate change requires nearly a complete replacement of the world’s energy system. Although the timing and technology mix of this energy transition remain uncertain, it is clear that trillions of dollars in new investment will be needed for everything from wind- and solar-farms, to batteries and EV factories. This is far more than any government or international organization can spend, making the private sector critical to success. In this light, this module explores how policy can help the world to finance the energy transition by using the different financial instruments and institutions that exist.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
HDS 3221

American Religious Ecofascism

:The blending of climate action and resource preservation with antisemitism, antiblackness, Islamophobia, sexism, transphobia, and xenophobia—tactics typically linked to the far-right—or advocating for the destruction of the earth to "level the playing field" for all creatures, a strategy often associated with the far left, exemplifies the characteristics of ecofascism. These dangerous ideologies often masquerade as environmental consciousness.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025