13 Items

Audio - Harvard Kennedy School

Between Blind Faith and Denial: Finding a Productive Approach to Integrating Policy, Science, and Technology

| May 05, 2021

HKS Professor Sheila Jasanoff, a pioneer in the field of Science, Technology and Society studies, says successfully blending science and policymaking requires both an appropriately skeptical society and a scientific community that's responsive to human considerations.

clouds and sun in the upper atmosphere

Shutterstock

Audio - Resources Radio

Reflecting on Solar Geoengineering, with David Keith

| May 12, 2020

In this episode of Resources Radio, host Daniel Raimi talks with David Keith, a physics and public policy professor at Harvard University and one of the world's leading experts on solar geoengineering. Keith outlines prominent examples of solar geoengineering technologies in development—from ambitious ideas, such as sending aerosols to the stratosphere, to more operational solutions, like painting roofs white to reflect more sunlight into space. An advocate for research on solar geoengineering, Keith discusses how coalitions among like-minded nations and clearer guidance from policymakers could expand deployment of promising technologies.

David Keith and Robert Stavins

Doug Gavel

Audio - Harvard Environmental Economics Program

The Potential Promises and Pitfalls of Solar Geoengineering: An Interview with David Keith

| Feb. 07, 2020

Professor Robert Stavins interviews David Keith, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, considered one of the world's leading scholars on solar geoengineering.

teaser image

Audio - Clean Air

Joel Clement on Becoming a Whistleblower on the Trump Administration

| Sep. 18, 2019

Shaughnessy and Joel Clement, Senior Fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists and former Director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Interior, talk about blowing the whistle on former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke for his efforts to purge the agency of government scientists working to address climate change in the Trump Administration.

Heavy smoke covers the center of eastern Siberian city Chita, Russia

AP/Yevgeny Yepachintsev

Audio - In This Climate

How the Arctic Caught Fire

| Sep. 06, 2019

The World Meteorological Organization labeled summer 2019's arctic and boreal wildland fires "unprecedented." In the first episode of In This Climate, the interviewers explore with scientists and policy experts how and why this circumpolar fire season was so significant and what we can do moving forward.

caribou

Wikimedia CC/Paxson Woelber

Audio - Polar Geopolitics

Climate Adaptation and Food Security in Alaskan Indigenous Communities

| Dec. 12, 2018

Indigenous communities are facing multiple challenges from a changing climate across the circumpolar North. In this episode, two experts with extensive experience in the American Arctic—former senior Interior Department official Joel Clement and Nicole Misarti of University of Alaska—discuss with Polar Geopolitics the array of impacts affecting native Alaskan communities, and what measures are being taken to build resilience and adapt to climate change.