Advancing sustainability and climate research to create maximum impact at home and across the globe
Learn moreThe Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability
A groundbreaking new home for research, teaching, and engagement, the Institute was established to catalyze research programs across Harvard’s vast community of scholars, students, practitioners, and staff.
Events
In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss (Special Exhibition)
In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss (Special Exhibition)
Climate Research Workshop: Building Climate Resilience with Coastal Wetlands
This lunchtime series provides Harvard University faculty a forum for the presentation and discussion of recent climate-related research papers and scholarly publications. Faculty will learn about current research taking place across Harvard University, engage in interdisciplinary dialogues, and forge connections and research collaborations.
Climate Research Workshop: Private Benefits from Public Investment in Climate Adaptation and Resilience
This lunchtime series provides Harvard University faculty a forum for the presentation and discussion of recent climate-related research papers and scholarly publications. Faculty will learn about current research taking place across Harvard University, engage in interdisciplinary dialogues, and forge connections and research collaborations.
“Climate change cuts across School boundaries, and tackling the challenge of climate change is a quintessential example of how we can draw on all of Harvard’s strengths.”
James Stock, Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability
Tackling the Climate Crisis
Watch Vice Provost Stock’s virtual Harvard Alumni Association event, where he shared, along with three faculty members, the University’s multi-disciplinary approach to combating climate change.
Climate Change and the Law
Watch Jody Freeman–Archibald Cox Professor of Law, Director of the Environmental Energy Program, and member of Vice Provost Stock’s Faculty Advisory Committee–speak at a virtual event hosted by the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning.
Environmental Endeavors at Harvard
Climate Research Clusters
The new Climate Research Clusters program will support ambitious endeavors that produce useful and practical solutions to climate problems. Research clusters will represent interdisciplinary, cross-School efforts to take on climate problems that are narrow enough to ensure that concrete solutions emerge, but broad enough that the solutions represent significant progress in meeting the world’s climate challenge.
You may also be interested in: Harvard Climate Internship Program
Harvard University Center for the Environment
Harnessing the intellectual power of Harvard to understand and shape our environmental future.
You may also be interested in: Harvard Project on Climate Agreements; Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic; Climate Crisis In Focus
Office for Sustainability
Harvard is using its campus as a living laboratory for piloting and implementing solutions that create a sustainable and resilient community focused on health and well-being.
You may also be interested in: Harvard Forest; Center for Green Buildings and Cities
The Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment
The Harvard-China Project provides natural, applied, and social scientific evidence for the design of innovative and effective policies to confront these challenges in China and beyond.
Harvard Environmental Economics Program
HEEP develops innovative answers to today’s complex environmental issues, by providing a venue to bring together people engaged in research, teaching, and outreach in environmental, energy, and natural resource economics and related public policy.
Harvard Law School Environmental & Energy Law Program
EELP conducts innovative legal analyses to improve environmental and climate outcomes and support clean energy.
HBS Business & Environment Program
The Business and Environment Initiative educates, connects, and mobilizes business leaders to address climate change and other environmental challenges.
Harvard Chan School C-CHANGE
The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment translates innovative research to inform actions that improve public health today and create a more just, sustainable, and healthy future for all.
News
Climate opportunities in U.S. and around the world, but not enough action
Experts gather at Radcliffe to assess progress
Launching Salata Institute to marshal Harvard resources to fight climate crisis
Jim Stock discusses what’s ahead for innovative, cross-disciplinary, University-wide effort
Better predictions on rise of oceans on warming Earth
Harvard team detects first definitive proof of sea level fingerprints from melting of glacial ice sheets
Finding much to like in Senate climate deal
Environmental policy expert sifts details, estimates plan will yield real, significant emission reductions
