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The federal government will route $20 billion through community lenders and nonprofits that are geared to clean energy and climate solutions.

A call for an energy transition, an emphasis on nature and more money for those hardest hit by climate impacts: Heres what COP28 accomplished.

Key speakers and attendees share their thoughts and impressions of the State of the Art Jewelry Summit held at Harvard University last week.

A cross-section of jewelry industry actors will be at Harvard University tomorrow, for the inaugural State of the Art Jewelry Summit, led by the RJC, GIA and MGMH.

/PRNewswire/ -- The first ever collaboration between The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC), The Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard University...

The Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability invite you for a pre-release film screening of Nuclear Now, followed by a discussion featuring Oliver Stone, Director and Co-Writer; Joshua S. Goldstein, Co-Writer; and Richard Lester, Japan Steel Industry Professor and Associate Provost, MIT. The panel will be moderated by Dan Schrag, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment, with opening remarks by Steven Pinker, Johnsto...

A new, weeklong intensive elective course at HBS (a Short Intensive Program, or SIP) brought approximately 80 students and more than 40 experts across industry and academia to discuss the policies, innovations, financing, opportunities, and complexities of climate change in the business context. Built collaboratively by the Business and Environment Initiative and the teaching team of HBS faculty Eleanor Laurans, Jim Matheson, and Peter Tufano, the course was a response to the groundswell of inte...

“You see these numbers that are just astounding,” said Sam Smith, an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. “There’s probably no other speciality that can make such a dramatic impact with so little change or effort.”

Geoengineering pioneers consider ways of preserving glaciers and polar ice, but ethical and technical challenges persist.

While it has long been considered controversial, more and more scientists are seriously considering dimming the sun to revert climate change.