Business & Climate Change
Columbia Business School Summer 2025 A-term course
Climate finance
To help scale climate finance, MDBs must seek replicable leverage
Combining public priorities with private investments is the key to climate action – but speed is of the essence
Climate and National Security: Bridging the Divide in Energy Policy
During Columbia Business School’s Earth Week, Professors David Schizer and Gernot Wagner explored how climate and national security priorities can accelerate the transition to clean energy.
Earth Series: "Climate Finance"
Columbia Climate School
COP 101 Workshop
Columbia Law School
BBC World Service: Climate finance
Radio interview
G20 must step up aid to world’s poorest countries
FT Letter by Daron Acemoglu et al
GAEA/WEF Blended Finance
Columbia Climate School
How to Assess the Outcome of COP28
Given that this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference was hosted by a petrostate and led by a fossil-fuel CEO, climate campaigners understandably had low expectations. Yet the summit did deliver some new commitments, and there is good reason to think that they are more than just empty words.
OPEC Fund Development Forum
Vienna, Austria
Arab Fiscal Forum
Dubai, UAE
Who Pays for Climate Change?
In the face of a massive financing gap for climate-change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, everyone accepts the need for more "creative" measures to unlock and redirect private capital. But proposals like carbon credits must be understood merely as stepping stones, rather than as lasting solutions.
Climate risk is financial risk
“Diversifying risk is nigh impossible when it affects the entire planet.”
A To-Do List for the New Climate Activists on Exxon’s Board
After a week when three oil giants were forced to face climate urgency, a guide to what concrete change might look like.
European Forum Alpbach: "Physics meets economics"
Alpbach, Austria
Underwriting 1.5°C
Competitive approaches to financing accelerated climate change mitigation
Energy and Environment class
New York University Stern School of Business
A balance of bottom-up and top-down in linking climate policies
Neither extreme is desirable.
Quantity-Performance Instruments for Public Climate Funds
Mobilizing the private sector for climate finance.