Former Obama Science Adviser John Holdren on the White House Science Office...
Jul 12, 2017ScienceInsider reported on developments at the White House’s Office of Science and Technology (OSTP), which under President Donald Trump is now dramatically smaller than it was under former...
View ArticleThe Perversity of the Climate Science Kangaroo Court
Jul 25, 2017"Precisely because climate science has policy implications that appear to challenge the status quo in global energy supply, moreover, the degree of professional skeptical scrutiny to which...
View ArticleClimate Change and Cape Cod
Jul 27, 2017Dr. John P. Holdren gave the 11th Annual Wheeler Lecture for the Quissett Harbor Preservation Trust in Falmouth, Massachusetts, on July 23, 2017.
View ArticleThe Case for Investing in Climate-Change Resilience: Insights from Science,...
Sep 18, 2017Professor John P. Holdren gave the keynote lecture opening a two-day international congress at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, which was organized by the University’s...
View ArticleRescue US Energy Innovation
Sep 25, 2017"President Trump has proposed severe cuts to US government spending on energy research, development and demonstration, but Congress has the 'power of the purse' and can rescue US energy...
View ArticleScience & Environment in the White House: What Did Obama Do? What Is Trump...
Oct 9, 2017Professor John P. Holdren gave the inaugural address for the Center of Biological Risk at the University of Connecticut on October 9, 2017.
View ArticleArctic Climate Science and Policy: Regional and Global Dimensions
Oct 13, 2017Professor John P. Holdren gave the keynote address for the Arctic Circle Convening in Reykjavik, Iceland. on October 13, 2017.
View ArticleJohn P. Holdren Awarded 2018 Moynihan Prize
Oct 19, 2017John P. Holdren, Co-Director of the Belfer Center’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, and former Science Advisor to President Obama and Director of the White House Office of...
View ArticleGlobal Climate-Change and U.S. Interests: What We Know, What We Expect, What...
Oct 19, 2017Professor John P. Holdren gave the Wasan Lecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois, on October 19, 2017.
View ArticleWhy the Wafflers are Wrong
Oct 26, 2017Professor John P. Holdren gave the keynote address at the World Conference of Science Journalists in San Francisco, California, on October 26, 2017.
View ArticleArctic Initiative Focuses on Impacts of Rapid Climate Change
Nov 21, 2017During his keynote address at the 2017 Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavík, Iceland on October 13, John P. Holdren announced the establishment of The Arctic Initiative: Science, Technology,...
View ArticleNewsmakers
Nov 21, 2017"Belfer Center Newsmakers" highlights members of the Belfer Center community who have been featured recently in the news.
View ArticleRemembering Our Colleague Professor Calestous Juma
Dec 18, 2017Our colleague Calestous Juma—who passed away on December 15 at age 64 after a long illness—was a pioneering, prolific, and influential scholar/practitioner in science and technology policy...
View ArticleBridging Science and Societies
Mar 20, 2018Climate contrarians continue to undermine the urgency of immediate climate action, particularly in the United States, despite increasing evidence of the devastating impacts of global...
View ArticleNatural & Social Science in the Executive Branch
May 17, 2018John P. Holdren won the 2018 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize. He delivered the annual Moynihan Lecture on May 17, 2018, at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, D.C.
View ArticleScience for Policy and Policy for Science in the Federal Government
May 22, 2018Professor John P. Holdren gave the keynote address at the NOAA Global Monitoring Annual Conference in Boulder, Colorado, on May 22, 2018.
View ArticleInterview With John Holdren: Trump has No Science Policy to Speak Of
May 23, 2018More than a year after Donald Trump became U.S. president, science policy in the United States has been effectively gutted.In an interview with The Asahi Shimbun, Holdren talked about what...
View ArticleNOVA: Holdren, Schrag Explain Climate Change
May 23, 2018In a new PBS NOVA documentary, Decoding the Weather Machine, Holdren notes that climate science—accumulating since Fourier’s time—proves that humans are responsible for the big increases in...
View ArticleGlobal Climate-Change and U.S. Interests: What We Know, What We Expect, What...
Oct 19, 2017Professor John P. Holdren gave the Wasan Lecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois, on October 19, 2017.
View ArticleJohn P. Holdren Awarded 2018 Moynihan Prize
Oct 19, 2017John P. Holdren, Co-Director of the Belfer Center’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, and former Science Advisor to President Obama and Director of the White House Office of...
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