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Climate, Biodiversity, Pandemics, and Justice: Converging Reasons for Alarm?

Harvard Yard with trees
Date
September 23, 2020
Time
1:00 p.m.
Location
Virtual Event
Category
Faculty
Attendance Policy
Open to alumni, Registration required
Accessibility
Real time captioning available
Sponsor
Harvard Alumni Association
Members of the Harvard College Class of 1969
Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment
Harvard Club of the New Hampshire
Harvard Office for Sustainability
Contact
Harvard Alumni Education | haa_alumnieducation@harvard.edu | 617-495-1920
This Is a Past Event

This year has brought increasingly troubling signs of ecosystem decline. How worried should we be? What do we need to know? How will climate change further fuel these disruptions, if left unaddressed?

Join Harvard faculty, students, and fellow alumni for a cross-disciplinary conversation about what’s happening in the field, and what outcomes we should expect based on the choices we make now.

Welcoming remarks by Lawrence S. Bacow JD '76, MPP '76, PhD '78, President of Harvard University

Speakers include:
  • Bruno Carvalho PhD '09, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies, Co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design
  • Stephen T. Curwood AB '69, Host and Executive Producer, Living on Earth (moderator)
  • Samuel Myers AB '87, MPH '07, Principal Research Scientist, Planetary Health, Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Planetary Health Alliance
  • Caro S. Park AB '17, PhD '25, PhD student in Population Health Sciences, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Laurie A. Wayburn AB '77, President, Pacific Forest Trust
 
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