Events

EVENT LINK: cpl.hks.harvard.edu/event/first-100-days-conversation-carol-browner-environmental-policy-after-election

REGISTRATION LINK: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuc-usrzsjHNBAM2V3OXy1Edq2q734iuRx

Harvard community members are invited to a discussion with Carol Browner, U.S. EPA Administrator from 1993-2001, and Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy 2009-2011. Hosted by Rand Wentworth, who teaches "Environmental Politics" at HKS, and moderated by CPL Bacon Fellows Lia Cattaneo and Claire Henly, Ms. Browner will discuss the environmental and climate policies that the Biden team is considering in the event of a Biden-Trump transition.

Study Group Leader: Joel Clement, Senior Fellow, Arctic Initiative

The Arctic Knowledge Systems Study Group will explore ways to collaboratively employ indigenous and scientific knowledge to improve resilience in the Arctic. It will consist of 6 sessions in which we will discuss inclusion of indigenous perspectives and how to improve for the future. All sessions will be held on Tuesdays beginning September 15 from 12:00pm - 1:00pm (ET).

Space is limited! To apply to join the study group please email Brittany Janis your resume and 100 words on why you are interested in participating. 

Meet members of the Belfer Center's Research Teams and learn about opportunities for students and fellows to get involved with research at the intersection of science and international affairs. 

Virtual Event Details

Registration is required for this event. Please click here to register to receive the event Zoom link. 

Join us for the first-ever virtual Energy Policy Seminar on Monday, September 14 from 12:00-1:00 ET! Leah Stokes, Assistant Professor of Political Science at USCB, will be speaking on "Short-Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States." The seminar will be hosted by HKS Professor Joe Aldy.

This event is open to the public. Please register for the Zoom webinar here. The seminar will be recorded and available to watch via the EPSS homepage for those who cannot attend live.

The Intelligence Project will host a webinar with Michael J. Morell, Former Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, on Wednesday September 9th from 12:00-1:15pm. Belfer Center Non-Resident Fellow and former Senior CIA Officer Kristin Wood will moderate. 

This session will be off-the-record and open to the Harvard Community.  Advanced registration required. Please RSVP below for access to the Zoom link.

Concerned about disinformation and election meddling? Interested in how intelligence informs policy? Curious about what separates espionage fact from fiction? 

If so, come learn more about the Belfer Center's Intelligence Project!

**Please register below for the Zoom Link!**

Speaker: Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia University

Although nearly all economists consider a carbon-pricing policy — either in the form of a carbon tax or a carbon emissions trading system — to be necessary to accomplish ambitious CO2 emissions reductions in large, complex economies, most such economists would also recognize such a carbon-pricing policy will not be sufficient. This is partly because of other market failures that get in the way of price signals, such as principal-agent problems and information spillovers of the results of research and development activities. Beyond this, there are significant political impediments to implementing carbon pricing in many jurisdictions. Professor Stiglitz will talk about this and much more in a conversation with Harvard Professor Robert Stavins.

Registration is required. Please click here to register in advance for this webinar.

Concerned about disinformation and election meddling? Interested in how intelligence informs policy? Curious about what separates espionage fact from fiction? 

If so, come learn more about the Belfer Center's Intelligence Project!

**Please register below for the Zoom Link!**

A panel on the current situation in Lebanon with Dr. Jamal Haidar, Assistant Professor of Economics, The American University in Cairo, Dr. Jeffrey G. Karam, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Lebanese American University, and Dr. Lama Mourad, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, Carleton University, moderated by Professor Tarek Masoud, Faculty Director, Middle East Initiative, and Sultan Qaboos Bin Said of Oman Professor of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School.

Speaker: Rachel Kyte, Dean, Fletcher School, Tufts University

Rachel Kyte will discuss a potential green recovery from the pandemic — how recovery efforts might be leveraged to accelerate the transition to a clean and sustainable energy system — in the United States and globally.

Registration is required. Please click here to register in advance for this webinar.