Guardian: "‘We’re still in the 1970s with cement’: Norway plant to blaze carbon-free concrete trail"
by Ajit Niranjan
Climate tech
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
Business & Society: Climate Change
Columbia Business School
Carbon Adjustment Tax
Conversation with Shiva Rajgopal and Aniket Shah
BCG × CCS
Columbia Faculty House
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.
Net Zero Nuclear
COP28, Dubai
The costs of “costless” climate mitigation
by Matthew J. Kotchen, James A. Rising, and Gernot Wagner
voestalpine
Linz, Austria
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
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.
Salomon Senior Leaders Program
Columbia Business School Executive Education
Climate Change and the Energy Transition
Spring 2023 MBA half-course
Realism About Techno-Optimism
Speeding up the adoption of already proven and scalable technologies, and exposing the many hidden costs associated with fossil fuels, is a necessary goal. Achieving it will require new policies to guide investments in the right direction, and techno-optimists ought to be the loudest advocates.
Youth4Climate
Mahindra United World College India
