CLIMATE, EDUCATION
Learning From Local and Global Climate Leaders: Highlights From the Climate School Showcase
As part of this year’s Climate Week NYC, the event included conversations between climate experts, interdisciplinary panels of researchers, and student presentations on the complex issues and possible solutions for the climate crisis.
Recent Stories
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Columbia Climate School’s Global Impact Scholars Confront Urgent, Real-World Problems
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Ripple Effects: Water, Youth and Climate Action
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How Sustainable Are Reusable Cups? A New Tool Aims to Find Out
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Earth’s Crust Is Tearing Apart off the Pacific Northwest—and That’s Not Necessarily Bad News
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Learning From Local and Global Climate Leaders: Highlights From the Climate School Showcase
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Columbia Will Co-Lead Major Project To Study Global Carbon Cycle
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NYC’s Composting Rates Are Low. A Sustainability Expert Thinks AI Will Offer a Solution. Eventually.
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Study of Extreme Indian Rainfall Upends Conventional Wisdom
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Starting Locally, Thinking Globally: One Student’s Journey to the M.S. in Climate Finance
Education & Community
Resources
Upcoming Events
- Monday, October 6, 2025 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Where: Seismology Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Description: Please check back closer to the event date for a talk title and Zoom link! Contact: Annika Gomez 6304410968
- Friday, October 3, 2025 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Where: Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027 Description: Indigenous craft practices and languages are powerful markers of cultural heritage and identity. They connect communities to their Land, their environment, and ground indigenous knowledge systems. Unsurprisingly, both have been targets of suppression and erasure by colonizing forces. Speakers will […]
- Friday, October 3, 2025 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Where: Columbia Business School, David Geffen Hall, 645 West 130th Street, New York, NY 10027 Description: Columbia University’s Capital for Good Conference provides a unique opportunity to tap into the vibrant ecosystem of capital for impact through the lens of philanthropy, impact investing, ESG, social and environmental ventures, and companies. Social […]
Viewpoints
Media Highlights
- Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, said that politics has long been a factor in federal disaster relief — one study found that swing states are more likely […]
- Senator James Inhofe as it did to NASA scientists like James Hansen, even though only Hansen had the truth on his side.
- Whatever the outcome of the executive order, banks will find a way to act in their own economic interest as they always do, said Lisa Sachs, head of Columbia University’s Center on Sustainable Investment.