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Can Capitalism Solve the Climate Crisis?
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Art Meets Science at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
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Meet the Inaugural Dean’s Graduate Scholars at Columbia Climate School
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How Columbia Students and Local Activists Are Co-Creating Climate Justice
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How Can AI Address Climate Justice When Women’s Voices Are Silenced?

By studying thousands of buildings and analyzing their electricity use, Columbia Climate School Dean Alexis Abramson has been able to uncover ways to significantly cut energy consumption and emissions. Watch the Video: “Engineering a Cooler Future Through Smarter Buildings“
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- Cane, a senior research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. ”When the two line up, you get an extreme.” Dr. Cane said that climate change had not increased the frequency of extreme […]
- By Lisa Sachs, Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University
- That year, James Hansen at Columbia University, New York – who famously told the US Congress in 1988 that humans, not natural fluctuations, were heating the planet – published a widely discussed paper with colleagues […]

















The “rate” of change is also not unprecedented. The rate of change between 2000 and 2026 is the same rate…