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Curbing Carbon on Campus

December 08, 2016

University reports on its fight against climate change, which includes a Climate Change Task Force co-chaired by ESPP Board of Tutors professor Bill Clark. By Colin Durrant, Harvard Correspondent The wells that plunge 1,500 feet under Radcliffe Yard are...

Global Concerns on Climate Change

November 17, 2016

Harvard experts, including a number of ESPP Board of Tutors members, gather at event co-hosted by President Faust, HUCE, and the Harvard Global Institute to discuss urgency, complexity of growing problem. By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer Is it...

What's Next for Climate Change Policy

November 15, 2016

Harvard professors, including Board of Tutors members Daniel Schrag, Robert Stavins and Michael McElroy, discuss potential climate change policy measures of incoming presidential administration. By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer Regulations to fight...

Canada’s Big Dams Produce Clean Energy, and High Levels of Mercury

November 10, 2016

Ninety-percent of proposed Canadian hydroelectric projects may expose local indigenous communities to methylmercury, according to research led by ESPP Board of Tutors professor Elsie Sunderland. By Ian Austen OTTAWA — Protests. Hunger strikes. Sit-ins...

Goodbye to the Climate

November 09, 2016

Op-ed written by ESPP Board of Tutors professor Robert Stavins discusses the implications of Donald Trump’s victory on climate policy. By Robert N. Stavins Donald J. Trump once tweeted that “the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese...

A Way Forward on Climate

October 06, 2016

ESPP Board of Tutors professor Michael McElroy discusses the vision that powers his new book. By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer Headlines focus on international agreements, sea levels, melting ice, and superstorms, but climate change is most of all an...

Op-Ed: Geoengineering is a bonkers plan, but it may be needed to tackle global warming

September 11, 2016

By ESPP associate and alumnus Gernot Wagner. Solar geoengineering is nuts. That, at least, is the reaction of many who hear about it for the first time. And how can it not be? Serious scientists are talking about deliberately trying to reflect a small...

Toward a More Reflective Planet

June 16, 2016

An Op-Ed by David Keith & Gernot Wagner, ESPP ’02, M.A. ’06, Ph.D. ’07 The last time the atmosphere held as much carbon dioxide as it does today was about three million years ago – a time when sea levels were 10-30 meters higher than they are now. Climate...

Studying Indy's Air

May 17, 2016

A team of national and international researchers is in Indianapolis measuring greenhouse emissions in the city. Dr. Steven C. Wofsy, Abbott Lawrence Rotch professor of atmospheric and environmental science at Harvard University, leads the team consisting...

Ann Pearson Named Harvard College Professor

May 10, 2016

Though Harvard faculty members often garner accolades for their pioneering research, they are perhaps less often publically celebrated for their talents as teachers and mentors. In that spirit, each year a select group of them are named Harvard College...

Misleading Talk About Decoupling CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth

May 06, 2016

An article by Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program You can call it my pet peeve or even my obsession, but whenever I read about the claimed “decoupling” of CO 2 emissions and economic growth, I get annoyed. Webster’s...

Intersections in Environmental Studies

March 15, 2016

A Q&A with Terilyn Chen, College '16, an Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator Harvard College's Environmental Science and Public Policy (ESPP) Concentration is arguably one of the most diverse fields of study at the college, with a...