Capacity to Promote Equity Both Within and Among Generations

This virtual seminar will explore strategic approaches for building and maintaining a greater capacity to promote equity both within and between generations. The seminar will feature: Nasif Khan (Former Chief of Staff and Divisional Head of Strategic Partnerships at BRAC) who will share insights on BRAC’s innovative approaches to poverty reduction and community-led development and reflect on what BRAC has learned in its 50-plus years of operation; Sharmila Murthy, (Professor of Law and Public Policy and former Director for Environmental Justice at the White House Council on Environmental Quality), who will speak to her experience on how equity and environmental justice can be institutionalized through government planning and decision-making; and Grant Wilson (Executive Director, Earth Law Center), who will speak to a growing global legal movement to ensure that the rights of nature and the rights of future generations are considered in decisions made today. The seminar will be moderated by Alicia Harley (Senior Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School). 

This seminar is the fourth in a virtual bi-weekly series on Building Capacity for Sustainable Development. The series seeks to integrate insights from scholars and practitioners on how to get things done in tackling the multiple intertwined crises of the Anthropocene: climate change, extinction, war, inequality, and rising authoritarianism. Additional information on the series is available here.

The series is organized by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Sustainability Science Program, the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, the Center for International Development, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.