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Event Topic : Climate Change

How hot is it really? Quantifying the Impact of Heat on the Lives and Livelihoods of Workers

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Thu, Oct 17, 2024 from 01:00pm — 02:00pm, ET

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Boston – Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Ave (Level 7)

How hot is it really? FBX Event on Oct 17

In collaboration with hundreds of workers from the Self Employed Women’s Association, an interdisciplinary team at the Salata South Asia Climate Adaptation Cluster is following hundreds of workers across indoor and outdoor occupations using microsensors, biosensors, and biomarkers. The team is working on quantifying the impact of heat and humidity in the microenvironment that the poor work and live in on their health, well-being, and wages.

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Is It Already Too Hot to Work? – Harvard @ Climate Week NYC

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Tue, Sep 24, 2024 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

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New York City

Is It Already Too Hot To Work? –NYC Climate Week

Join the Salata Institute’s Climate Action Accelerator for a panel discussion at Climate Week NYC on Tuesday, September 24. The panel of Harvard faculty from medicine, public health, and law will be in conversation with experts and leaders from the domestic and global labor movements to examine the impact of rising global temperatures on workers’ health, livelihoods, and productivity. 

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Recalibrating Sustainability: Living with a Changing Climate

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Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 05:30pm, ET

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Tsai Auditorium S010, CGIS South (Concourse), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

This lecture is a keynote event of the workshop on ‘Adapting to Climate Change in South Asia and West Africa’ organized by the Harvard Climate Research Clusters on the Gulf of Guinea (Climate Adaptation in the Gulf of Guinea) and South Asia (Climate Adaptation in South Asia),  in collaboration with the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, the Stanley Center for Peace and Security, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, and the Salata Institute at Harvard University.

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The Climate Crisis with Senator Sherry Rehman, Former Federal Minister of Climate Change, Pakistan

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Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 06:30pm, ET

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Nye Conference Center, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School

Senator Sherry Rehman is Chair of the Climate and Environment Caucus of the Senate of Pakistan, former Federal Minister of Climate Change, first woman Opposition Leader in Senate of Pakistan, Vice President of Pakistan Peoples Pakistan.

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Data-Driven Decision Making in a Changing Climate

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Thu, Sep 28, 2023 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET

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Harvard University Center for the Environment, Room 429 (26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138)

2023 has seen a new wave of climate extremes causing disruptions and displacement throughout the world, from heat and wildfires in North America and Europe to unprecedented flooding in Greece, Libya, and Hong Kong. Novel data sources and methods for analyzing human population dynamics and health impacts during extreme weather events are opening up new perspectives on the scale and speed of change, the dimensions of humanitarian response, and the possible futures of vulnerable communities.

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Artist Talk: New Imaginaries

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Mon, Nov 21, 2022 from 05:00pm — 06:00pm, ET

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Gund Hall, Room 124, Graduate School of Design

Join Visiting Artist Fellows Aamina Nizar and Sharbendu De as they explore impacts of urban design and climate change in Sri Lanka and India.   ‘An Elegy for Ecology’ by Sharbendu De imagines how humans can survive in the future in the wake of climate change.    ‘The Colombo Project’ by Aamina Nizar imagines an […]

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