Environment and Natural Resources

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Join the Harvard Program on U.S.-Japan Relations on Tuesday, March 31 from 12:30-2:00 to hear from Tomomichi Amano, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Marketing Unit, Harvard Business School.

Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; and the Business & Environment Initiative, Harvard Business School.

ANNOUNCEMENT, MARCH 9, 2020: In line with Harvard's COVID-19 travel policies and campus restrictions, the HKS Energy Policy Series is canceled for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester. Each speaker has been invited to reschedule their seminar for our Fall 2020 series.

Join us on March 30 to hear from Jay Apt, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Co-Director of Carnegie Mellon's Electricity Industry Center. Prof. Apt will be speaking on "Is PJM Procuring Too Much Reserve Generation?”

The Energy Policy Seminar Series is free and open to the public; no RSVPs required. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

ANNOUNCEMENT, MARCH 9, 2020: In line with Harvard's COVID-19 travel policies and campus restrictions, the HKS Energy Policy Series is canceled for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester. Each speaker has been invited to reschedule their seminar for our Fall 2020 series.

Join us on Monday, March 12, 2020 to hear from Suzi Kerr, Chief Economist at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) on “Climate Teams: Generating Large-Scale Supply of High-Integrity International Units.”

As always, this event is free and open to the public; no RSVPs required. Buffet-style lunch will be served. To view the full semester schedule for the Energy Policy Seminar Series, click here.

This event is postponed until further notice due to public health concerns around the global coronavirus outbreak.

Join the Environment and Natural Resources Program on Tuesday, March 10 to hear from Shankar Krishnamoorthy, Executive Vice President at ENGIE. Shankar will be discussing the private sector's role in decarbonizing our global energy system with ENRP Senior Fellow Nicola de Blasio.

This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited: please RSVP at the link below.

Fran Ulmer, HKS Arctic Initiative Senior Fellow, will be presenting on “Geopolitical Implications of the Rapidly Changing Arctic.”

Please note that this week's seminar will take place in the David Ellwood Democracy Lab, not Bell Hall.

As always, this event is free and open to the public; no RSVPs required. Buffet-style lunch will be served. To view the full semester schedule for the Energy Policy Seminar Series, click here.

Environmental concerns are rising on the global agenda, with pressure growing on both governments and businesses to accelerate progress to achieve a sustainable economy. The inaugural Circular Economy Symposium at Harvard will take place on March 6th, 2020, uniting at a key location the top leaders, innovators, and practitioners that are exploring the benefits and challenges of a circular economy.

Join us to hear from John Deutch, Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT's Department of Chemistry, and former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence (1995-1996). Professor Deutch will discuss "Four Strategies to Address Climate Change and Reduce Damage: A Conceptual Model."

It is very unlikely that climate damages can be reduced to an acceptable level by the end of the century relying only on emissions reduction. A conceptual model is presented that includes four climate change control strategies: emissions reduction, carbon dioxide (CO2) removal from the atmosphere, adaptation to climate change, and geoengineering to optimally reduce climate damage subject to a control budget constraint.

As always, this event is free and open to the public; no RSVPs required. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

To view the full semester schedule for the Energy Policy Seminar Series, click here.

Join us on February 24th in Bell Hall to hear from Mike Catanzaro, Partner at the CGCN Group and former Special Assistant to President Trump for Domestic Energy and Environmental Policy. Mike will be speaking on "Energy and Environmental Policy in the 21st Century: Who will Decide, Congress or the Administrative State?"

The Energy Policy Seminar Series is free and open to the public; no RSVPs required. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Elizabeth Arnold, Chair and Professor of Journalism, University of Alaska, and former NPR national correspondent, will address new ways to improve climate change coverage. The national media continue to sound the alarm about climate change, but the gloom and doom narrative may fail to engage the public in a meaningful way.  A former fellow at the Shorenstein Center, Arnold documented a pattern of reporting that conveys a catastrophic vision with little in the way of how individuals, communities and governments are responding. After a decade of reporting from some of the most remote areas of the Arctic, Arnold advocates a solutions-focused approach to more effectively communicating climate change around the world.

The seminar will be moderated by Cristine Russell, ENRP Senior Fellow & HKS Adjunct Lecturer. It is sponsored by the Belfer Center's Environment & Natural Resources Program (ENRP), Arctic Initiative & SEE PIC: the HKS student interest group for Sustainability, Energy & Environment.

Please submit RSVPs via the link below.

Refreshments will be served.

Join us for the second Spring 2020 Energy Policy Seminar, featuring MIT's Richard Schmalensee. Professor Schmalensee will be reporting on some preliminary results from the MIT Energy Initiative’s Future of Storage project.

The Energy Policy Seminar Series is free and open to the public; no RSVP required. Buffet-style lunch will be served.