Scholars revisited the long history of Israel-Palestine conflict leading up to the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas and weighed potential steps toward peace before hundreds of Harvard community members at Klarman Hall on Monday. “We’re here because of dead civilians, Jewish and Arab,” said moderator Tarek Masoud, faculty chair of the Middle East Initiative […]
Read & Discuss »The world is not on track with meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As of 2022, 2.2 billion people lacked safely managed drinking water, 3.5 billion lacked access to safely managed sanitation, and 2 billion lacked access to basic hand hygiene facilities. Today, global investment needs in the water sector exceed $1.37 trillion. To meet […]
Read & Discuss »The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (HLS) initiative has announced its inaugural Request for Proposals (RFP) for innovative and impactful projects that address systemic inequities affecting people who have been harmed by slavery. Guided by the findings and recommendations of the Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery, the initiative […]
Read & Discuss »In 1990, the U.S. Congress enacted the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) to guide the work of repatriating Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and other objects of cultural importance to lineal descendants, the tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations. Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology cares for most of […]
Read & Discuss »Indonesian President Joko Widodo inaugurated a new floating solar plant on Cirata reservoir in West Java province. The 192 megawatt peak (MWp) plant is the third largest floating solar plant in the world and is expected to generate enough electricity to power over 50,000 homes. The plant was developed by PLN Nusantara Power, a unit […]
Read & Discuss »After obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals, the companies have closed the agreement announced last July to co-invest in the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm, which has a capacity of 476 megawatts (MW) Iberdrola has signed a strategic agreement with Masdar, a major renewable energy group based in Abu Dhabi, to co-invest in the 476 MW Baltic Eagle […]
Read & Discuss »Investment will help accelerate growth and drive platform innovation to support grid reliability and the energy transition Energy Exemplar, a leading global provider of energy market simulation software, announced it has agreed to be acquired by private equity funds affiliated with Blackstone (”Blackstone”) and Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”). With the backing of Blackstone and Vista, Energy Exemplar […]
Read & Discuss »New legislation aims to strengthen the business case for decarbonisation in Europe The Act supports manufacturing of the key technologies needed to achieve EU’s decarbonisation objectives MEPs propose faster authorisation procedures and net-zero industry clusters The legislation voted on by the Industry Committee on 25 October 2023, is intended to bolster Europe’s manufacturing output in […]
Read & Discuss »President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Drives $50 Billion in Public-Private Sector Investment to Jumpstart America’s Clean Hydrogen Economy; Seven Clean Hydrogen Hubs Will Create Tens of Thousands of High-Quality Jobs, Strengthen the Nation’s Energy Security, and Combat the Climate Crisis As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, a key pillar of Bidenomics, the […]
Read & Discuss »Update of IEA’s landmark Net Zero Roadmap shows greater ambition and implementation, supported by stronger international cooperation, will be critical to reach climate goals Driving greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s energy sector to net zero and limiting global warming to 1.5 °C remains possible due to the record growth of key clean energy technologies, though […]
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