Climate Policy
Columbia Business School Spring 2026 A-term course
Climate tech
Business & Climate Change
Columbia Business School Summer 2025 A-term course
Hub Election Roundtables: "Energy & Innovation Business Impacts"
Conversation with Chris Levesque, CEO of TerraPower
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.
What Will Trump’s Victory Mean for the Climate?
On climate and especially environmental policy, the return of Donald Trump to the White House is clearly bad news. But the outlook is uncertain, because Trump has sent mixed signals about the kinds of policy changes he might pursue, and it remains to be seen what effect he can have on broader technological and market trends.
Guardian: "‘We’re still in the 1970s with cement’: Norway plant to blaze carbon-free concrete trail"
by Ajit Niranjan
The Best Climate Policy Puts Carrots Before Sticks
Economists have long insisted that the only way to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases rapidly and at scale is to put a price on them. But while that is true, the key to a successful, politically sustainable climate policy is to ensure that the benefits precede the costs.
Climate Risks, Uncertainties, and Opportunities
Columbia Business School Reunion
Carbon Adjustment Tax
Conversation with Shiva Rajgopal and Aniket Shah
What Does Trump Mean for the Climate?
Even if Donald Trump defeats President Joe Biden and tries to take a wrecking ball to US climate and environmental policies, he ultimately would be powerless to derail the inevitable renewables revolution that is gaining momentum worldwide. His anti-climate agenda would be another wall that never gets built.
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.
The costs of “costless” climate mitigation
by Matthew J. Kotchen, James A. Rising, and Gernot Wagner
Washington Post Live
Conversation with Timothy Puko
How to Think About Climate-Tech Solutions
To think that technology will save us from climate change is to invite riskier behavior, or moral hazard. Whether a climate technology creates new problems has little to do with the solution, and everything to do with us.
Will the Banking Busts Hurt Clean Tech?
Rather than impeding the clean-energy race, the recent collapse of the US start-up community's go-to bank offers valuable lessons for managing the public-private minuet that the net-zero transition requires. The doomsayers are missing the bigger picture.