Past Events

  • 2022 Apr 04

    Space-based Solar Geoengineering and Astropolitics

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Zoom & Ofer 401

    Oliver Morton, Environmental Editor, The Economist, and Pete Worden, Executive Director, Breakthrough Starshot, will present "Space-Based Solar Geoengineering and Astropolitics."

    This event will be held both virtually and in person. Please stay tuned for the registration link.  

    Contact: horton@seas.harvard.edu

  • 2022 Mar 07

    Solar Geoengineering and US Politics

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Zoom & Ofer 401

    Kelly Wanser, Executive Director, SilverLining; Steve Hamburg, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund; and Joe Aldy, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, HKS will present "Solar Geoengineering and US Politics." 

    This event will be held both virtually and in person. For those planning to attend virtually, please register in advance. 

    Contact: ...

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  • 2022 Feb 25

    Governance Lessons from SCoPEx

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Zoom & Ofer 401

    ​Frank Keutsch, Stonington Professor of Engineering and Atmospheric Science and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard and Louise Bedsworth, Director, Land Use Program, Berkeley Law, UCLA and Chair of SCoPEx Advisory Committee, will discuss current governance arrangements for SCoPEx, experiences and lessons learned since the project was first announced, and broader questions related to research governance and social license.

    The Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment, or SCoPEx, is a small-scale outdoor experiment...

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  • 2020 Nov 13

    Solar Geoengineering Public Health Workshop

    1:00pm to 3:00pm

     

    Harvard Chan C-CHANGE and Harvard's Solar Engineering Research Program invite you to join a workshop to learn about the current science and funding opportunities to answer critical public health research questions about solar geoengineering.

    Solar geoengineering refers to a set of emerging technologies that would seek to reflect a small fraction of sunlight back into space to reduce the amount of climate change caused by greenhouse gases. It could not replace emissions reduction, carbon dioxide removal, or adaption strategies, but it could have the potential...

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  • 2020 Mar 02

    Four Strategies to Address Climate Change and Reduce Damage: A Conceptual Model

    11:45am to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Building B-500

    John Deutch on Four Strategies to Address Climate Change and Reduce Damage: A Conceptual Model

    Co-Sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs  and Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program.

    Join us to hear from John Deutch, Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT's Department of Chemistry, and former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence (1995-1996). Professor Deutch will discuss "Four Strategies to Address Climate Change and Reduce Damage: A Conceptual Model...

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  • 2019 Nov 25

    Space-based Solar Geoengineering Workshop

    (All day)

    Space-based systems were a significant portion of the early literature on solar geoengineering, but space-based methods have been all-but ignored in the last decade as geoengineering research grew. We convened an informal meeting to consider this topic at Harvard on November 25th, 2019. The attendees were scientists, scholars, writers and entrepreneurs primarily from the US and Europe, with interests in both the development of space and solar geoengineering. The aim was to discuss the two communities’ priors on this subject: that space-based approaches aren’t plausible (solar...

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  • 2019 Nov 20

    Seminar: Jesse Reynolds

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School

    "Linking Solar Geoengineering and Emissions Abatement Policies: Strategically Resolving an International Climate Policy Dilemma"

    Solar geoengineering may be able to significantly reduce climate-change risks, but raises sharp controversy. The leading cause of controversy is the concern that its research, development, or use might inappropriately displace efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. A possible response would be to strategically link the international policies of abatement and solar geoengineering. I expand on this idea, including by disaggregating states based on...

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