Climate Risk
Columbia Business School Spring 2026 B-term course

Columbia Business School Spring 2026 B-term course
Columbia Business School Summer 2025 A-term course
Columbia Business School
The next climate disaster is sure to come. When and where is the question
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.
Columbia SIPA
Draft — comments welcome
by Marcos Mendoza
Project Syndicate
Hint: It's about minimizing risks and uncertainties.
Mahindra United World College India
Although businesses and investors stand to make a lot of money if they can properly navigate the new risk environment, no one seems to have a good explanation for why we are where we are. Climate risks, in particular, have been systematically underestimated, and thus mispriced, for decades.
“Diversifying risk is nigh impossible when it affects the entire planet.”
U.S. State Department
Spring 2021
Uncertainty is not our friend
Where climate change and solar geoengineering are concerned, errors of commission and omission should be weighted equally.
Alpbach, Austria
Toward a revamping of climate damage estimates in IPCC AR6