Events

Nature-based solutions (NBS) for climate action have the potential to deliver significant emissions reductions while simultaneously offering socio-economic, biodiversity, and climate adaptation benefits. However, unlocking private finance for NBS, particularly in emerging markets, remains challenging. 

Please join the Environment and Natural Resources Program for a seminar featuring Predoctoral Research Fellow Lydia Zemke, who will explore successful case studies from Kenya and Costa Rica and discuss the challenges and opportunities of scaling up private investments in NBS.

Registration: No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis. The seminar will also be streamed via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on this page (typically one week later). Those who register for this event will automatically receive a link to the recording as soon as it becomes available.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Join us for this in-person film screening of "River of Gold," followed by a discussion with Director Sarah duPont and Brazilian experts Cesar Diniz, Raoni Rajão, and Luiz Eloy Terena on the topics of who profits from illegal gold mining in the Amazon and the consequences of mining on public health, the environment, and Indigenous rights. A reception with light refreshments will be served as of 5:00 PM and the film screening will begin at 5:30 PM.

Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, "River of Gold" is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey bearing witness to the apocalyptic destruction of the rainforest in the pursuit of illegally mined gold. "River of Gold" reaffirms the right of the rainforest to exist as a repository of priceless biodiversity and not as the toxic remains of man’s greed for gold.

Please join the Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) for our next Global Energy Transition Talk featuring Gustavo Manrique Miranda, Ecuador's Minister of the Environment, Water and Ecological Transition. Minister Manrique will discuss the process of the creation of the Hermandad Marine Reserve encircling the Galápagos Islands, in the context of the Ecological Transition policy adopted by the administration of H.E. President Guillermo Lasso. ENRP Senior Fellow Nicola De Blasio will moderate the discussion.

Q&A with students to follow. Light refreshments will be served.

Attendance: This event is open to current Harvard Kennedy School students. RSVP required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first serve basis.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Elizabeth Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

This event is virtual and will be held in English and Portuguese with simultaneous translation to both languages.

What futures are in dispute in the Amazon? How can an interrelated, interdependent, and sustainable collective future for the rainforest and future generations of humans and non-humans emerge?

Speakers: Tônkyré Akrãtikatêjê (Katia Silene Valdenilson), first female leader of the Gavião Akrãtikatêjê ethnic group and Visiting Researcher at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA); Marcelo Furtado, Lemann Visiting Public Policy Fellow, ILAS-Columbia (Fall 2021); Felipe Milanez, Professor at the Institute of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)

Bringing together students, investigators, policy makers, and others committed to understanding and communicating the human health impacts of global environmental change.

Discussion with Jose Goldemberg, Professor Emeritus of the University of São Paulo, on Brazil's bioethanol program.

Please join us for a special address by Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of Mexico City

Sponsored by the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Belfer Center, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, the Harvard University Center for the Envrionment and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

The winners of the 2009 Roy Award for Environmental Partnership, the Mexico City Metrobus, will discuss the innovative Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system that reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, while improving the quality of life and transportation options in Mexico City, one of the largest cities in the world.

This seminar is a unique opportunity to learn how a successful public private partnership is successfully planned, developed and managed from the perspective of the organizations that made it happen.

This talk will present the key factors that lead to the development of the Brazilian ethanol and biodiesel industries. Three on-going small scale projects have been analyzed from a rural development perspective to compare their socio-economic benefits in relation to large scale projects. Preliminary analysis have tried to identify alternative partnership structures between the private sector and rural communities.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come-first served basis.