Columbia Business School: Business & Climate Change
Summer 2025 Summer Block Week
Climate finance
Deutsche Welle: "Who should pay for climate action?"
by Charli Shield & Sam Baker
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
Deutsche Welle: "Can we afford a transition to clean energy?"
by Charli Shield & Sam Baker
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
Aspen Ideas Festival
Aspen, CO
Carbon Adjustment Tax
Conversation with Shiva Rajgopal and Aniket Shah
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.
Amazon Economics
Columbia Business School
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.”
