Columbia Business School: Climate Policy
Spring 2026 A-term course
Iron & steel
Getting to Greener Steel
Coalbed methane is an underappreciated problem of global steel production. While cutting methane emissions in the steel supply chain will not produce green steel overnight, it could reduce the sector’s emissions by the equivalent of a billion tons of carbon annually, and at little cost.
Hard to Abate, Impossible to Ignore: Industrial Decarbonization in a Shifting Policy Landscape
Columbia Business School
Co-production as an Economically Feasible Pathway to Economy-Wide Electrification
by Cody E. Finke, Theodore G. Albertson, Ian McKay, Aravindh Rajan, Eric McFarland, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Daniel M. Kammen, and Gernot Wagner
Columbia Business Magazine: "Closing the Climate Knowledge Gap"
by Jonathan Sperling
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
The Green Key to Germany’s Economic Recovery
Just as the broader European economy depends heavily on Germany, the continent's industrial powerhouse, Germany's own economy depends on access to affordable power. With geopolitical and climate conditions requiring an urgent transition to renewables, the task now is to develop a politically viable energy strategy.
Deutsche Welle: "Can we afford a transition to clean energy?"
by Charli Shield & Sam Baker
Capture or cut carbon to make steel greener?
Financial Times business school teaching case study
Stegra: Green Hydrogen Steel
Columbia Business School Case
Electra: Decarbonizing steelmaking through carbon-free iron
Columbia Business School Case
What Steel Decarbonization Needs
It is both technically possible and economically feasible to eliminate almost all the carbon dioxide from iron and steel production by mid-century, thus cleaning up an industry that accounts for 10% of global emissions. But progress will not happen without a concerted policy push.
