ARCTIC DIALOGUES
(Continued from page 11) Chair of the Arctic Economic Council, John Holdren, Co-Director of the Arctic Initiative, Alice Rogoff, Founder of Arctic Today, Yang Huigen, Director-General of the Polar Research Institute of China, Silje Karine Muuotka, Member of Norway’s Sami
Climate Justice
parliament, Scott Minerd, Chief Investment Officer, Guggenheim Partners, Kenneth
The Honorable Mary Robinson,
Høegh, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs,
former UN High Commissioner
Greenland, John Letzing, of the World
for Human Rights and former
Economic Forum and Sergey Vladimirovich
President of Ireland, discussed
Krivovichev, Chairman, Kola Science Centre.
issues of justice arising from climate change with Professor John
With a team of Arctic Innovator students in
Holdren, in the Harvard Kennedy
tow, absorbing all of the fascinating content
School Forum this Spring.
the Assembly has to offer, this year’s trip to the Assembly was a resounding success.
During the conversation Robinson spoke about the dangers facing the most vulnerable globally because of a changing climate. She shared antidotes about her time working in Africa, and the ways climate change was undermining basic human rights, like the right to food, water and shelter. Speaking about the human dimensions of climate change, she shared the unique burden women bare, and noted the ways that traditionally they have been missing from the climate change conversation. She also shared how she has been working to bring women into the discussion through her work at the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice. The conversation concluded with a hopeful note about global ways to begin to tackle this challenge in a way to protects future generations.
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BELFER CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
What can geoengineering do for the Arctic? Arctic Innovators gathered for an exciting end of the semester session with David Keith, Professor of Applied Physics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Public Policy in the Harvard Kennedy School, who is a leading researcher on solar geo-engineering. The event was livestreamed so past graduates of the Arctic Innovators program could join virtually to reconnect to the fascinating lecture. Professor Keith shared with students his work on the science and public policy of solar geoengineering. He discussed the latest research on solar geoengineering technologies, provided an analysis of environmental risks, and gave a broad description of the kinds of assessments and governance that would be necessary if geo-engineering were to be deployed
