"Creating a Climate Safe Future"
16 February 2024, 1:55-2:45 PM
Panelists:
Tomás Álvarez-Belón, Investor at Collaborative Fund
Hannah Friedman, Founding Principal at Planateer Capital
Charles Gertler, Senior Advisor on Emerging Technologies at DOE LPO
Rachel Payne, Head of Climate Moonshots at Google X
Moderated by Professor Gernot Wagner, Columbia Business School
Organized by Isabella Todaro, Columbia Business School MBA '25
Featured Articles
by Cody E. Finke, Theodore G. Albertson, Ian McKay, Aravindh Rajan, Eric McFarland, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Daniel M. Kammen, and Gernot Wagner
A net-zero world by 2100 is likely inevitable, but the next decade will be critical for securing a livable future.
Coalbed methane is an underappreciated problem of global steel production. While cutting methane emissions in the steel supply chain will not produce green steel overnight, it could reduce the sector’s emissions by the equivalent of a billion tons of carbon annually, and at little cost.
