Columbia Business School: Climate Policy
Spring 2026 A-term course
Climate tech
Climate Security Is Energy Security
If political conditions in the United States and elsewhere require a rebranding of technologies formerly known as “climate tech,” so be it. The larger economic, technological, and geopolitical forces propelling everyone toward cleaner energy remain as strong as ever.
Video: "Brimstone: How one company uses different rocks to make the same cement"
The YEARS Project mini-documentary
How does a multinational become a B Corp?
Financial Times business school teaching case study
Video: "Stegra: Steel is one of the world’s dirtiest industries, but a company in Sweden may have an answer"
The YEARS Project mini-documentary
America's Clean Energy Transition Will Continue Despite the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
While the OBBBA guts renewable energy incentives, undercuts US manufacturing, and hands a long-term advantage to China, economics will continue to drive clean energy growth.
Columbia Business School: Business & Climate Change
Summer 2025 Summer Block Week
Video: "Sublime: Cleaning up cement, one electron at a time"
The YEARS Project mini-documentary
Tages-Anzeiger: «Trump kann die Energiewende verzögern, aber nicht aufhalten»
Interview mit Simon Schmid
Who pays for cutting carbon out of making cement?
Financial Times business school teaching case study
Deutsche Welle: "Who should pay for climate action?"
by Charli Shield & Sam Baker
Hub Election Roundtables: "Energy & Innovation Business Impacts"
Conversation with Chris Levesque, CEO of TerraPower
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.
No small talk: Where energy policy meets reality
Columbia SIPA
How can Ørsted overcome its US challenges?
Financial Times business school teaching case study
The Climate Policy Pendulum
Although US President-elect Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans give climate advocates plenty to worry about, all hope is not lost. Clean-energy technologies still have decisive physical advantages over the alternatives, and economic common sense will eventually win out.