Support for Harvard University's Lecture series on Energy and the Environment
The Harvard University Center for the Environment recognizes that the most pressing problems facing our natural environment are complex, often requiring collaborative investigation by scholars versed in different disciplines. The Center for the Environment seeks to raise the quality of environmental research at Harvard and beyond by connecting scholars and practitioners from different disciplines.
Since 2006, Bank of America has proudly provided funding support for the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Our support enables the center to organize speaker series and conferences that bring together the Harvard University community and the public to discuss choices and strategies for addressing, in concrete ways, today's energy and environmental challenges.
As a direct result of our support, the center has developed a campus-wide energy and environment research community that is centered on four programs: The "Future of Energy" Speaker Series; "Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change" Speaker Series; "Green Conversations"; and "Climate Solutions: Carbon Capture and Storage." Bank of America is proud to sponsor these events that promote serious discussion - and action - on the energy and environmental challenges facing the world.
Future of Energy. Since 2006, the "Future of Energy" series has brought leaders from government, industry and academia from around the world to Harvard to help the University define research challenges from a variety of perspectives in the energy realm.
The Center for the Environment is planning six major events focused on the "Future of Energy" during the 2008-2009 academic year. Among the speakers will be John Rowe, CEO of Exelon; Steven Leer, CEO of Arch Coal; Mukesh Ambani, CEO of Reliance Industries; and Senator Jeff Bingaman, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Biodiversity, Ecology and Global Change; Green Conversations. In 2007-2008, Bank of America supported the "Biodiversity, Ecology, and Global Change" lecture series and the Center's newest series, "Green Conversations," showcasing dialogue between Harvard faculty and prominent experts in academia, business, government and non-governmental organizations which focused on topics that included innovative technology designed to increase the efficiency of the electric grid.
Climate Solutions: Carbon Capture and Storage. A critical component of the larger "Climate Solutions" program is a focused research project on the challenges and opportunities associated with carbon capture and storage. This series address the numerous obstacles and unanswered questions standing in the way of any strategy for broad implementation for carbon capture and storage.
Through coordinated cross-disciplinary research projects, workshops and published policy papers, the "Climate Solutions" program will enable Harvard to make a critical contribution to policymakers at a time when thoughtful analyses of policy alternatives are urgently needed.
