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Magazine Article - Fair Observer

Sacrificing Nature Is Not an Option

    Author:
  • Kourosh Ziabari
| Feb. 27, 2019

In this edition of "The Interview," Fair Observer talks to Professor John Holdren, former science adviser to President Barack Obama and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2009 to 2017 about the impacts of global warming on the United States and the government's strategies to combat climate change.

- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Belfer Center Spring 2014 Newsletter

| Spring 2014

The Spring 2014 issue of the Belfer Center newsletter features recent and upcoming activities, research, and analysis by members of the Center community on critical global issues. This edition highlights the Belfer Center’s deepening engagement with China and increasing collaboration with Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance around critical issues related to China. We announce former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as a new Belfer Center senior fellow who will lead efforts to explore possibilities and impacts of a new strategic China-U.S. relationship. Read about this and much more.

- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

From the Director

| Spring 2012

As time passes since Paul Doty’s death, we begin to move beyond our grief to a deeper appreciation of all the ways Paul’s work lives on. Nowhere is this legacy more vividly alive than at Harvard in the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, of which he was the founding member.

Journal Article - Science

Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being

| January 25, 2008

"I would urge every scientist and engineer with an interest in the intersection of S&T with sustainable well-being...to 'tithe' 10% of your professional time and effort to working in these and other ways to increase the benefits of S&T for the human condition and to decrease the liabilities. If so much as a substantial fraction of the world's scientists and engineers resolved to do this much, the acceleration of progress toward sustainable well-being for all of Earth's inhabitants would surprise us all."

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- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

From the Director

Spring 2005

Belfer Center Director Graham Allison congratulates students graduating from the Kennedy School and focuses on research and work that is being done at the Center.

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- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Non-Proliferation Treaty and Iran, N. Korea Top Belfer Priorities

Spring 2005

As the signatories of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) gather in May to review the treaty and to assess the impact of the nuclear activities in North Korea and Iran, Belfer experts continue working to assist policymakers and the public in understanding and responding to the treaty and its review.

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- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Belfer Center Informs United Nations Reform Debate

Spring 2005

While United Nations reform efforts have been at the forefront of the news in recent months, reform activity has been underway within the U.N. for several years. The Belfer Center has been contributing its expertise to the reform debate on several fronts.

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- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Newsmakers

Spring 2005

Recognizing noteworthy achievements of Belfer Center faculty.