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President Bacow Reviews Harvard Climate Actions

President Bacow Reviews Harvard Climate Actions

September 9, 2021

In a letter to the community this afternoon addressing climate change, President Lawrence S. Bacow described what “Harvard has done and will do to ensure that our community is fully engaged in the critical work ahead.”

The appearance of such a letter was perhaps not surprising in the current global context of wildfires and hurricanes, heatwaves, and deluges and droughts—as well as continued student, faculty, and alumni interest in climate-change research and policy initiatives, and continued advocacy of divesting fossil-fuel assets from the endowment investment portfolio...

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Is Science Back? Harvard’s Holdren Says ‘Yes’

November 18, 2020

Ex-Obama adviser says, unlike Trump, Biden and Harris will embrace factual analysis

With the creation of a coronavirus advisory board among its first acts, the incoming Biden-Harris administration has moved quickly to reinstall science as a foundation for government policy after four years of a president who disdained accepted scientific wisdom on subjects from wildfires to hurricane tracks, climate change to COVID-19. The Gazette spoke with John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental...

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Global Dilemma

September 24, 2014

With an eye on the U.N. Climate Summit, environmental economist Robert Stavins shares his thoughts on priorities leaders should set in working toward next international agreement... Read more about Global Dilemma