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Columbia Climate School is bringing bold ideas, leading experts, and groundbreaking research to Climate Week NYC. Explore our events, stories, and updates as we help shape the conversation on climate action across New York City.
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Upcoming Events
- Tuesday, September 22, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Where: Teachers College Columbia University, 525 W. 120 St., New York, NY 10027 Description: In this El Niño year, anticipatory action projects are taking action using forecasts right now, as droughts and floods are happening around the globe, they are activating millions of dollars of pre-funded disaster action before the disasters […]
- Tuesday, September 22, 2026 10:30 AM – 2:00 PM Where: Schapiro CEPSR, 530 W. 120 St., New York, NY 10027 Description: A focused half-day convening bringing together leaders from industry, research, and government to examine how the United States rebuilds secure, end-to-end mineral supply chains and delivers the dependable, affordable energy that domestic manufacturing and energy-intensive industry require. The program […]
- Tuesday, September 22, 2026 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM Where: Pulitzer Hall, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Description: Register here We all know the discourse by now: AI is powerful, the risks as well as the opportunities are real, and no one seems to have a plan to govern it. This session is about what we could actually do […]
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Media Highlights
- Researchers from Columbia Climate School’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and other institutions examined what could happen if New York continued its existing planting patterns. … But when it meets nitrogen oxides released by vehicles, buildings and […]
- “We expected winter heating to dominate methane emissions, but the summertime signal showed us that we need to be tracking these emissions year-round,” said co-author Róisín Commane, Associate Professor in Columbia’s Department of Earth and […]
- When Zoey Yiyuan Zhou first heard the news that the Trump administration was shuttering the embassy air quality monitoring, it struck her as a research opportunity. “It’s such a rare case to study this drawback,” […]



















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