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Field Notes from India: Climate Adaptation from the Ground Up

"Creative and important innovations to address climate shocks are taking place in the field, far from government offices and conference halls," writes James Salzman of Harvard Law School about a recent trip he took with Harvard faculty to visit Salata Institute-funded research in India. "My time in Ahmedabad brought home the central lesson that people are problem solvers. The Climate Educators and Entrepreneurs will not cure climate change, of course, but these young women provide an important window into the creative local resilience strategies being developed out of necessity around the globe."
Cluster Research News Harvard Research
Tue, Apr 1, 2025
Woman in India

Caroline Buckee explains her team's extreme-heat research in India

Harvard researchers sponsored by the Salata Institute are using environmental sensors and wearable devices to track the health impacts of extreme heat on women working in India's informal sector. Caroline Buckee, professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, explains.
Cluster Research News Harvard Research
Thu, Mar 27, 2025
Women in Ahmedabad

The impacts of heat on lives and livelihoods are far-reaching but poorly understood

With more data on the wide-ranging effects of heat, we can start to identify cost-effective and culturally relevant interventions for adaptation.
Cluster Research Brief News Harvard Research
Fri, Mar 14, 2025
Faculty at simulation

Harvard professors simulate and study Phoenix heat emergency

Extreme heat is the top weather-related killer in the United States. Harvard Medical School faculty are testing a new simulation exercise to help cities prepare for a changing climate.
Cluster Research News Harvard Research
Wed, Mar 12, 2025

Policy for Reducing Methane Emissions from Livestock

Robert Paarlberg, a research affiliate of the Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions, published commentary on the website of the Center for Strategic & International Studies, titled “Methane Reduction in Livestock: Confronting the North-South Gap.”
Cluster Research News Harvard Research Methane
Fri, Mar 7, 2025

Show & Tell: An Analysis of Corporate Climate Messaging and Its Financial Impacts

As climate-induced physical and transition risks to corporations are becoming more and more material, investors are increasingly scrutinizing a patchwork of voluntary climate-related communications.
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Thu, Feb 6, 2025

Access Government Data on Environmental Justice

The Salata Institute Climate Research Cluster on Strengthening Communities has made government data on environmental justice, community issues, and health indexes available to all researchers.
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Thu, Jan 30, 2025

Corporate Carbon Targets Research Workshop: Building a Community of Scholars & Practitioners

The Salata Institute gathers practitioners and scholars to help frame research on voluntary corporate emission reduction goals and chart new collaborations.
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Wed, Jan 8, 2025
the West Africa workshop

Harvard-West Africa collaboration probes climate adaptation in Gulf of Guinea

For tens of millions of people in West Africa, climate change is a problem that cannot wait. They are living the extreme effects today.
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Tue, Dec 17, 2024

Salata Institute 2024 Year-In-Review

In 2024, the Salata Institute launched and supported 44 interdisciplinary climate and sustainability research initiatives led by 65 faculty from across Harvard University; hosted thousands of students, alumni, and climate practitioners at over 50 events and convenings; and delivered new climate solutions, data, and ideas.
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Fri, Dec 13, 2024

Research Brief: Policy for Reducing Methane Emissions from Livestock in the United States

The Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions, supported by the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, has released a Research Brief titled “The Statutory, Regulatory, and Policy Framework for Reducing Methane from Livestock in the United States.” The brief explores in detail action by state governments, as well as the U.S. federal government. The author, Abby Husselbee, is a Staff Attorney at the Harvard Environmental & Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School.
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Fri, Dec 13, 2024

Harvard Gazette: Poll finds bipartisan support for renewable energy measure

Results of a recent national poll shows most rank-and-file members of both parties think some revenue from renewable energy produced on federal land should go to states and local communities adjacent to these projects.
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Fri, Dec 6, 2024