CIERP Alumni Perspectives: a Conversation with Zerin Osho
About five years ago, at the end of Zerin’s third semester at Fletcher, five o’clock on a cold winter morning, Zerin dragged herself out of bed, put on a blouse over her night wear and sat in front of her desk for a remote interview with her future boss, the undersecretary general of the United Nations, Mr. Erik Solheim. Though a bit sleepy at that time of day, with her ten years of experience working for a research institute on sustainable development and particularly her expertise on the great potential of energy-efficient cooling to curb climate change, Zerin impressed Mr. Solheim and got a very exciting job as his special advisor on India.
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CIERP Alumni Perspectives: A Conversation with Kartikeya Singh
In 2021, COP26 seized the attention of much of the world. But it was at another COP over a decade prior – COP16, in Cancun, Mexico – where Dr Kartikeya Singh’s interest in applying to the PhD program at the Fletcher School was encouraged. At COP16, Dr Singh met Professor Kelly Sims Gallagher at a plenary session, and had the opportunity to attend a reception that Fletcher was hosting for diplomats. Having already attended the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Dr Singh found the interdisciplinary nature of Fletcher to be the ideal place for him to enhance and deepen his existing background, by exploring environment and climate-related issues through different lenses.
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CIERP Alumni Perspectives: A Conversation with Mathew Lee
It was at a field trip, organized as part of an environmental science class during his senior year of high school when Mathew first noticed what the systemic threat of climate change was going to be. Mathew credits his teacher, Mr Ross Olson, for arranging field trips which helped bring abstract textbook concepts to life and made him ‘see’ how climate change was beginning to impact his life and the community he lived in. He quickly realized that climate change was not going to just be a problem for the scientists to solve. This made him consider keeping climate-related careers in mind along with his aptitude for the social sciences.
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Moving to net-zero targets is a matter of security: COP26 President Alok Sharma speaks at The Fletcher School
On April 23, 2022, COP26 President and UK Cabinet Member Alok Sharma spoke at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and discussed the outcomes of the Glasgow Climate Pact, the urgency to establish public-private financing partnerships for clean energy transition, and the current Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent humanitarian and energy crisis.
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Transforming for the Earth and humanity
This blog, usually reserved for pieces on climate and energy policies, may seem ill-suited for discussions of faith and spirituality. I can’t help but notice, however, the parallels between the transformation that occurred last week in churches everywhere, and the transformation that is required of us to address climate change. We need a transformation that is rooted in love, and without it, no technical work will be sufficient to tackle climate change.
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