Date and Location

February 12, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
Online

Contact

617-495-5971

This virtual seminar will feature: Carrie Exton (acting Senior Counsellor of the Centre for Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity at the OECD) who leads the OECD’s efforts to measure sustainability; Eli Fenichel (Yale University and former assistant director for natural resource economics and accounting at the White House) who led the Biden administration’s efforts to incorporate natural capital into US government metrics and decision-making; and Mary Ruckelshaus (executive director of the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University) who has extensive experience supporting governments around the world in building sustainability measurement and decision-making tools. The seminar will be moderated by Alicia Harley (Senior Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School).


A working paper providing background for the seminar is available here.


This seminar is part of a virtual bi-weekly series on Building Capacity for Sustainable Development. The series seeks to integrate insights from scholars and practitioners on how to get things done in tackling the multiple intertwined crises of the Anthropocene: climate change, extinction, war, inequality, and rising authoritarianism.  Additional information on the series is available here.


The series is organized by M-RCBG, Sustainability Science Program, Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, Center for International Development, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Speakers and Presenters

Alicia Harley, Senior Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Project, HKS;
Carrie Exton, acting Senior Counsellor of the Centre for Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity at the OECD;
Eli Fenichel, Yale University and former assistant director for natural resource economics and accounting at the White House;
Mary Ruckelshaus, Executive Director of the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University

Organizer

Co-Organizer

Additional Organizers

Sustainability Science Program (SSP), Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, Center for International Development