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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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API 165

Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy

This course applies economic tools to understand the rationale, design, and evaluation of public policies focused on energy and environmental problems.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
DEV 309

Development Policy Strategy

This capstone course explores a wide array of theoretical and analytical tools to help policy makers diagnose, prioritize and address development challenges at a national or sub-national level.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
IGA 260

Asia in the World - Regional Security, Integration and Ideology

What are the factors that hold Asia together, or run the risk of pulling it apart? This course examines contemporary Asia, one of the most politically and economically dynamic regions of the world, exploring how far it can be seen as one region and how complex the forces within it are.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HLS 2931

Creating Electricity in the U.S.: Exploring the Tradeoffs

In this reading group, we will explore historic and ongoing legal and policy debates about the fuels that power the US electric system.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
TBA

Writing Group: Climate Adaptation

Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
API 141

Finance

This course provides financial concepts, techniques, and instruments that are essential to a variety of applications that include raising debt and equity finance, asset management, climate finance, development finance, financing infrastructure, banking, financial regulation, and risk management.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HLS 2076

Ethics, Economics and the Law

Explores controversies about the use of markets and market reasoning in areas such as organ sales, procreation, environmental regulation, immigration policy, military service, voting, health care, education, and criminal justice.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HLS 2123

International Environmental Law

This course covers the international law governing the environment and natural resources. The course begins by covering the sources and institutional structure of international environmental law, as well as the fundamental principles governing international environmental law. The course continues by delving into the core treaty regimes in the field, including ozone protection, climate change, and biodiversity and species protection. The course will also address the relationship of international environmental law with other fields of international law.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 6, 2025
IGA 671M

Policy and Social Innovations for the Changing Arctic

Through the lens of the rapidly changing Arctic region, this module will give students an overarching understanding of these local and global challenges, as well as tools and experience in developing their own policy and social innovations to address complex issues in a sustainable way.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Fri, Jan 10, 2025
MLD 605M

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

This course provides students with the theory and practice to design, operate and sustain supply chains that deliver public services.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Fri, Jan 10, 2025
IGA 353M, GHP 543

Frontline Negotiation Lab: Strategic Planning for Complex Engagements

.This one-week intensive on-campus course is designed for those planning to work in high-intensity environments such as pandemics, climate crises, natural disasters, armed conflicts and other critical situations. This is a demanding course for highly motivated and committed students.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 13, 2025
BGP 204

Food Policy

This class will examine the global food system and how it can meet the caloric needs of a growing population with higher caloric demands.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025