EVENT SUMMARIES
Broadmoor, New Orleans
Friday, January 25, 2013
After Katrina, residents rolled up sleeves
Tom Wooten ’08, author of "We Shall Not Be Moved: Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina," discussed his book during a Wintersession lecture in Sever Hall.
October 30, 2007
Kelly Sims Gallagher a Discussant at Hamilton Project Event on Climate Change
Kelly Sims Gallagher served as a discussant during a two-part Hamilton Project forum on ideas for mitigating climate change through market mechanisms and new technologies. The forum was hosted by The Brookings Institute and held in their Washington, DC office.
May 23-24, 2007
Materials from "A Joint Workshop on IGCC & Co-Production and CO2 Capture & Storage"
"A Joint Workshop on IGCC & Co-Production and CO2 Capture & Storage" was held during May 23-24, 2007 in Beijing, China. The Ministry of Science and Technology, Energy Technology Innovation Policy at Harvard University, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences co-sponsored the workshop.
Broadmoor, New Orleans
Friday, January 25, 2013
After Katrina, residents rolled up sleeves
Tom Wooten ’08, author of "We Shall Not Be Moved: Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina," discussed his book during a Wintersession lecture in Sever Hall.
October 30, 2007
Kelly Sims Gallagher a Discussant at Hamilton Project Event on Climate Change
Kelly Sims Gallagher served as a discussant during a two-part Hamilton Project forum on ideas for mitigating climate change through market mechanisms and new technologies. The forum was hosted by The Brookings Institute and held in their Washington, DC office.
May 23-24, 2007
Materials from "A Joint Workshop on IGCC & Co-Production and CO2 Capture & Storage"
"A Joint Workshop on IGCC & Co-Production and CO2 Capture & Storage" was held during May 23-24, 2007 in Beijing, China. The Ministry of Science and Technology, Energy Technology Innovation Policy at Harvard University, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences co-sponsored the workshop.
Photo by Lindsay Lecky
May 18, 2009
"New York Business Roundtable: Key Takeaways"
By Sasha Talcott, Former Director of Communications and Outreach
With the U.S. Congress currently debating whether and how to establish a domestic cap-and-trade system to address climate change, the outcome of those discussions is critical to global climate negotiations in Copenhagen and beyond, according to a roundtable discussion on post-Kyoto climate policy hosted by Barclays Capital on April 30, 2009, with insights from the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.
The business roundtable in New York, which included participants from a range of industries and key government officials, looked at the implications of U.S. domestic climate policy for the international process, the current state of the Waxman-Markey bill in the U.S. Congress, and the future of national and global carbon markets.
Robert C. Stowe
December 15, 2008
Harvard Project Leadership Presents Key Lessons at Official COP 14 Side-Event
By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
In the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements' official side-event in Poznan, Poland, Professor Robert N. Stavins presented key findings from the project's Interim Report, which synthesizes an extensive research effort conducted by 27 teams of leading experts from developed and developing countries, whose goal is to identify key design principles of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture.
Sharon Wilke
April 27, 2011
Ambassador Meera Shankar: India-US Relations in an Asian-Pacific Century
In a public address for the Belfer Center and the Future of Diplomacy Project entitled “India-US relations in a Pacific Century,” Meera Shankar, the Indian Ambassador to the United States explained that the current Indian foreign policy priority is “peace, progress, and prosperity.” As the Asia Pacific region becomes the new locus of power, Ambassador Shankar stated that India has become more aware of its “Asian Pacific identity.”
Marcus Halevi
March 12, 2008
Burns Calls for More US Engagement with Iran
Nicholas Burns spoke March 11 in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, labeling the top challenges facing the world today as global climate change, trafficking in women and children, international drug and crime cartels, and terrorist groups with access to chemical and biological weapons. This last challenge motivated the focus on Iran.
