Environment and Natural Resources

Join us for the first Energy Policy Seminar of the semester on January 27 at 11:45!

Cecilia Han Springer will be presenting on "China's Belt and Road Initiative: A Clean Energy Paradox." The talk will focus on an empirical analysis of the relative environmental performance of China's overseas investments in coal-fired power plants.

As always, this event is free and open to the public; buffet-style lunch will be served.

A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Cecilia Han Springer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources and Science, Technology and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. This event will be held in Pierce Hall, Room #100F.

Sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment; Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS); and the Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) at Harvard Kennedy School.

For the final Energy Policy Seminar of the Fall 2019 semester, come hear from Tufts University's Professor Gilbert Metcalf and Harvard's Professor James Stock on "The Economic Impacts of Carbon Taxes."

This seminar series is free and open to the public; lunch will be served.

On Monday November 25th, HKS' own Sarah Armitage and Prof. Joe Aldy will discuss "The Welfare Implications of Carbon Price Certainty."

This seminar series is free and open to the public; lunch will be served.

Ted Halstead, Chairman and CEO of the Climate Leadership Council, will visit HKS to present on "A Climate Solution Where All Sides Win." This seminar is adapted from Halstead's TED Talk of the same title.

In addition to being a climate expert, Halstead is also an author, policy entrepreneur and public speaker. He previously founded two other influential think tanks, including New America, and more recently founded Americans For Carbon Dividends, an advocacy organization.

This seminar series is free and open to the public; lunch will be served.

Join the Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) for a conversation with David Festa, Senior Vice President of Ecosystems at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), about what it takes to build climate resilience. David will look at the three major challenges to most climate adaptation projects: financing, building equity, and aligning diverse stakeholders and conflicting policy structures. He’ll share lessons learned from his years of work at EDF on water rights and coastal erosion in dialogue with Professor Henry Lee, ENRP Director.

Lunch will be served.

Please RSVP to isabelfeinstein@hks.harvard.edu.

Christopher R. Knittel will visit HKS to discuss the role carbon taxes could play in future federal climate policy. Professor Knittel teaches Applied Economics at MIT, where he also serves as Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and Co-Director of the Electric Power Systems Low Carbon Energy Center.

This seminar is free and open to the public; lunch will be served.

Moderator: Joel Clement, Senior Fellow, Arctic Initiative

Speakers: Gunn-Britt Retter, Head, Arctic and Environmental Unit, Saami Council

Deenaalee Hodgdon, Student, Brown University; Indigenous Activist

Raina Thiele, Founder and President; Thiele Strategies

Join the Arctic Initiative for an engaging and illuminating conversation with three indigenous leaders: Gunn-Britt Retter, Head of Arctic and Environmental Unit of the Saami Council; Deenaalee Hodgdon, Brown University student and indigenous activist, who is a Deg Hit'an Athabaskan and Supiaq woman from the villages of Anvik and South Naknek, Alaska; and Raina Thiele, Founder and President of Thiele Strategies who was born and raised in Alaska and is Dena'ina Athabascan and Yup'ikas.

Please RSVP to Brittany_Janis@hks.harvard.edu.

Carol Browner, HKS Hauser Leader and former Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy (2009-2011), will join the Energy Policy Seminar Series to address the future of climate policy. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership (CPL).

Open to the public; lunch will be served.  Please note the different venue for today's lecture.