10 October 2024

Columbia Alumni Impact: "Can Financial Investments Meet Environmental and Social Challenges?"

Boston, MA

Thursday, October 10, 2024, 6:00-8:00pm
The University Club of Boston

Panelists:
Liesel Pritzker Simmons, Co-Founder and Principal, Blue Haven Initiative
George Sarrinikolaou, Executive Director, Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability; Assistant Provost for Climate & Sustainability, Harvard University.
Gernot Wagner, Climate economist, Columbia Business School

Moderators:
William Woo, Managing Principal, CairnPath Advisory
Helenka Hopkins Nolan, Advisor, Greentown Labs

Engineering and logistical concerns add practical limitations to stratospheric aerosol injection strategies

by Miranda Hack, V. Faye McNeill, Dan Steingart, and Gernot Wagner

21 Oct 25

Co-production as an Economically Feasible Pathway to Economy-Wide Electrification

by Cody E. Finke, Theodore G. Albertson, Ian McKay, Aravindh Rajan, Eric McFarland, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Daniel M. Kammen, and Gernot Wagner

10 Sep 25

Getting to Greener Steel

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.

25 Sep 25