THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION SERIES:

The Biden administration has moved rapidly in its first 100 days to renew our government’s efforts to stem climate change. The Department of Energy and Department of Interior will both play outsized roles among the federal agencies in helping to implement Biden’s climate agenda.

Tom Conforti has a conversation with Daniel Schrag, Professor of Geology, Environmental Science and Engineering at Harvard University, Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment and Co-Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, about climate change, solutions and adaptation.

COVID-19 RECOVERY SERIES:

A conversation with Dr. Renee N. Salas, Affiliated Faculty at the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) and a Yerby Fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, about how climate action needs to be seen as a prescription for better health and achieving health equity.

COVID-19 RECOVERY SERIES:

A conversation with Dr. John M. Reilly, a Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management, and Co-Director, emeritus of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. As an energy, environmental and agricultural economist, he has focused on understanding the contribution of human activities to global environmental change and the effects of environmental change on the economy and society, and solutions to the threats of global environmental change.

Our present day water situation is the result of human negligence and behaviors that have destroyed this natural resource. Michelle A. Urrea Vivas discusses how the scarcity of water, its over-exploitation, contamination by industrial, commercial, agricultural, and residential activities evidences how inefficiently and unsustainably this resource has been handled, to date.

Pedro Mariani discusses why international cooperation on climate change has substantially failed so far and whether we should hope for better outcomes in the near future.

In Rebecca Henderson’s new book, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, there opens a new path for the future of capitalism, a ‘journey’ that offers rewards, but is demanding.

As climate-induced wildfires and hurricanes ravage America, our lives, our livelihoods, and the stability and security of our financial markets are in danger. Steven Rothstein and Veena Ramani, from Ceres, discuss how climate change is a systemic risk and we need our elected representatives to use their power to hold regulators to account for immediate climate change action.

Sustainable, regenerative, and circular business models are not simply an ethical choice, it is the next frontier of innovation and growth. Tze Ni Yeoh discusses what is the circular economy and how can businesses benefit from it.

There are a little over 60,000 individual species of trees in the world. More than 11,000 of these are at risk of extinction and 3,300 are critically endangered - meaning that without intervention, they will become extinct. Doris Honold discusses how U.K.-based Botanic Gardens Conservation International and their Tree Conservation Fund are working with communities to save trees from extinction.