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Climate & Environment
We’re closer to breaching Paris climate limits than we thought—but nations can still make change
According to new research from HKS Professor John Holdren and others in One Earth, we’re 25% closer to breaching the goals than we thought. Holdren and his coauthors suggest we’ll instead pass a 1.5 degree rise by 2030 and a 2 degree increase by 2046.
Turning environmental leadership into policy in Massachusetts
Experiential learning with adjunct professor Rand Wentworth takes students into the MA State House to launch a ballot initiative to fund clean water and natural resources.
HKS faculty and alumni shaping global cooperation on climate
From research to outreach, Harvard Kennedy School expertise has helped structure international climate talks.
Harvard Kennedy School experts analyze the potential effects of environmental policy deregulation
The Trump Administration seeks to end the 'endangerment finding' that has enabled controls on greenhouse gases and fossil fuel emissions. Harvard Kennedy School faculty examine what that could mean.
Zanny Minton Beddoes has led The Economist since 2015, when she became the first woman to hold the editor-in-chief position in the publication's more than 180-year history.
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Education, Training & Labor
“We hit bottom in civics a couple of years ago, and we’re actually on the way back up”
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