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Watch this breakout session from the 2025 Harvard Climate Symposium. Featuring Gage Hills, Harvard SEAS; Vijay Reddi, Harvard SEAS; and Yicheng Zhu, University of California, Berkeley. As computation becomes an increasingly significant component of global energy consumption, rethinking how we design and deploy computing systems is essential for climate progress. This session brought together SEAS faculty working across the computing stack, from circuits and architectures to networks and edge AI, to explore strategies for minimizing energy use while enabling intelligent, climate-supporting technologies. Topics include efficient data movement and computation, AI for grid intelligence, and ultra-low-power AI systems like TinyML. The session showcased how energy-aware computing can become a foundation for scalable, systems-level solutions to the climate crisis.

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Wed, Oct 8, 2025

Watch this breakout session from the 2025 Harvard Climate Symposium. Featuring Robert Stavins, Harvard Kennedy School; Jon Goldstein, Environmental Defense Fund; Daniel Jacob, Harvard University; Carrie Jenks, Environmental & Energy Law Program, Harvard Law School; and Vanessa Ryan, Chevron. High-quality data, available through transparent channels, is essential in efforts to reduce methane emissions. The quantity, quality, and transparency of data on emissions has increased dramatically in just the last few years. New satellites, including MethaneSat and Tanager-1, along with rapidly improving aerial and ground-based detection, are ushering in a new era of possibility for emissions reduction. Panelists – from Harvard, industry, and the NGO community – discussed these developments and how we might achieve progress even in a challenging policy environment.

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Wed, Oct 8, 2025

Watch this breakout session from the 2025 Harvard Climate Symposium. Featuring Sanjay Seth, Former Chief of Staff, US EPA Region 1; George Behrakis, Climate Solutions Fund; Jessica Moerman, Evangelical Environmental Network; and Aruni Ranaweera, Harvard Kennedy School. This session brought together emerging leaders from across the political spectrum to explore how the next generation is driving climate progress through dialogue, innovation, and collaboration. This session featured both conservative and progressive voices and focused on bridging divides and advancing durable, cross-partisan solutions.

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Wed, Oct 8, 2025

Watch this breakout session from the 2025 Harvard Climate Symposium featuring Elaine Buckberg, The Salata Institute; Tim Echols, Commissioner Georgia Public Service; Brent Gruber, JD Power; Philip Jones, Phil Jones Consulting LLC; and Carolyn Ryder, Electrify America. Panelists discussed the outlook for the public EV charging network, a lynchpin for EV adoption and its climate benefits, in the face of declining federal support for charging and EV adoption

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Wed, Oct 8, 2025

The Climate Action Accelerator at the Salata Institute presents: The New Behavioral Science of Mode Choice. This webinar uses insights from behavioral science insights into how, when, why, and where people consider and make choices to describe new, low-cost, impactful and behavior-oriented transportation interventions that support people in choosing the best transportation modes for their personal circumstances. The webinar’s main message is that life changes like forming a family, taking a new job, moving to a new place, and reconfiguring social networks create opportunities for mode shift where the transportation system makes mode shifts easy

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Mon, Sep 29, 2025

Freight transportation is a vital component of the global economy—but also a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, local air pollution, and infrastructure impacts. As freight managers, planners, and policymakers confront these challenges, new partnerships and technologies are reshaping the future of sustainable freight. Watch for a dynamic conversation from practitioners, academics and non-profit leaders from across the freight ecosystem as they share real-world strategies to reduce emissions, improve efficiency, and support equitable, climate-resilient logistics networks.

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Mon, Sep 29, 2025

The new high-altitude platform delivers sharper, real-time images and smoke forecasts that will help vulnerable communities prepare. Researchers at Harvard University have lofted a sensor-packed balloon 15-20 kilometers above Earth to spot wildfires sooner and track their heat and smoke with unprecedented clarity.

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Tue, Jul 22, 2025

The Salata Institute at Harvard presents, "Expositions from The Frontlines of Climate Change in The Gulf of Guinea," a short documentary from our research cluster: Climate Adaptation in the Gulf of Guinea.

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Mon, Jul 14, 2025

Pricing is one of the most impactful actions in meeting transportation policy outcomes. If pricing is implemented as a per mile basis, all vehicles pay the same rates and travelers can choose to drive less and save money with associated health, safety, and congestion benefits. Additionally, while many pricing policies impose new costs with the goal to fill revenue gaps, existing driving costs can also be “repriced” by converting fixed costs to variable costs. Repricing policies convert fixed costs such as insurance premiums, vehicle taxes, and registration fees to variable costs by charging them on a per mile basis. Repricing parking and congestion pricing also show potential. Learn more about these strategies and real-world examples.

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Mon, Jul 7, 2025

The latest installment of Harvard Voices on Climate Change features HBS’ Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor, and Ishita Sen, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, as they explore how climate change is transforming insurance markets. From rising premiums and insurer retreat to questions of financial risk and equity, the conversation examines how the insurance sector is responding to climate impacts—and what it means for households, businesses, and policymakers.

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Tue, Jun 10, 2025

Clean Transportation Series Hear from transportation agencies that are siting transmission, clean energy generation, and battery storage on their properties and rights-of-way to reap environmental and financial benefits and improve grid reliability.

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Tue, Jun 3, 2025

HACE welcomed Professor Cass R. Sunstein (College '75, HLS ’78), Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, for a discussion of his latest book, Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World—and the Future. This event was hosted in partnership with the Salata Institute and touched on the social cost of carbon and other themes in the book, as well as actions that Harvard Alumni can take locally and across the nation.

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Wed, May 21, 2025

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Sustainable Computing: Energy-Efficient Systems for a Climate-Conscious Future

Key Opportunities for Reducing Methane Emissions - Even During Challenging Times

Bridging Divides: Advancing Climate Action Through Policy, Faith, and Public Engagement

Watts Next? The Future of EV Charging

The New Behavioral Science of Mode Choice

Sustainable Freight

Harvard balloon takes wildfire surveillance to the stratosphere

Expositions from The Frontlines of Climate Change in The Gulf of Guinea

Pricing and Repricing Leveraging pricing signals to achieve policy outcomes

Harvard Voices on Climate Change: Can Insurance Keep Up with Climate Change?

Energy Transition Technology in Transportation Rights Of Way

HACE Earth Month Programming: Professor Cass R. Sunstein