Sustainability & Environment

Harvard Divinity School student Aliyah Collins MDiv ’23 founded the Eco-Healing Project to provide spiritual care to students at historically Black colleges and universities who are impacted by environmental injustice.

In “Clearing the Air,” a three-part episode on Harvard Business School’s Skydeck podcast, HBS alumni working in carbon capture weigh in on what’s possible in this growing industry.

The Harvard Innovation Labs has selected 23 ventures to join the third annual Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle, an incubation program for high-potential ventures working to address climate change.

Two dozen Indigenous youth leaders from across the circumpolar North visited Harvard Kennedy School as part of the International Workshop on Indigenous Youth Leadership for the Changing Arctic.

Watch video of five-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo as she joins composer, pianist, and Harvard professor Vijay Iyer to discuss her album Mother Nature, which she describes as a “love letter” to the planet.

The inaugural Climate Research Clusters grants—awarded by Harvard’s Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability—will provide more than $8.1 million to five ambitious projects that bring together faculty across Schools and disciplines to pursue concrete solutions to complex climate challenges.

A collaborative team of Harvard researchers representing the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design developed two climate systems that efficiently cool buildings, contain zero refrigerants, and use far less energy than traditional AC units.

Michael Ashley Stein, co-founder and executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, calls for "systemic and urgent disability inclusion" in climate resilience planning.

Harvard Medical School is working with faculty and staff to embed climate change and its impact on health in all four years of the MD curriculum.

Harvard Management Company (HMC) managing director Michael Cappucci discusses HMC's strategy for meeting the goal of transitioning the endowment portfolio to "net zero" greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.