ELP Hosts Senator John Kerry at HLS
The Environmental Law Program, in conjunction with Visiting Professor Roger Ballentine, the Environmental Law Review, the Environmental Law Society, and the HLS Democrats, hosted Senator John Kerry (D-MA) for a talk on climate change on January 16, 2008. Sen. Kerry stressed the urgency of the climate change problem, arguing that the federal government needs to take action immediately to combat global warming.
“We have to move faster…we have about a ten year window to try to get this right, which means we have to start moving now,” Kerry said, explaining that the government should allocate more funds towards developing alternative energy sources. “There is a complete disconnect between the reality of what’s happening in people’s economies and the reality of what the scientists are telling us.”
Kerry said that although the climate change issue is at the forefront of the 2008 presidential campaign, there are still significant barriers to passing legislation in Congress. Nonetheless, he said, he is introducing a bill that would reduce emissions in the U.S. by 80% through an emissions trading program.
ELP Offers New Student Fellowships
The Environmental Law Program is proud to announce a generous donation by alumna Joy Covey, devoted to offering summer fellowships for students interested in working in public interest environmental law. Five fellowships will be awarded for the first time in summer 2008 to HLS students working at non-profits, government entities, and other public interest organizations working on issues such as climate change, land acquisition and management, pollution control, energy, carbon trading, environmental justice, and biodiversity conservation.
ELP Hosts Spring Carbon Offsets Conference
Spring Conference Agenda at Harvard Law School