Climate20
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Climate School Announces New Faculty and Academic Leadership Appointments
The new appointees bring expertise in a wide variety of disciplines including climate adaptation, food systems, financial issues, law and paleoclimate.
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New York’s Climate Buyout Plans Must Put Communities First, Experts Say
At the Managed Retreat conference, hosted by Columbia Climate School, researchers emphasized the need to work together with communities on climate adaptation.
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Study Highlights 6 Tools for Decolonizing Climate Research
While there’s no quick fix for the legacies of colonization, researchers argue that it starts with recognizing Indigenous knowledge systems alongside Western scientific methods.
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Can a New Forest Alliance Change Nature Finance for the Better?
The partnership of three countries—Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Indonesia—could play a pivotal role in reducing global deforestation.
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Adapt or Retreat? Conference Will Explore Questions of Habitability in a Changing World
At Columbia Climate School’s Managed Retreat conference, local and international academics, scientists, and community members will join representatives from different sectors to discuss managed retreat, habitability, and climate justice.
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Improving Market Design for Energy Storage
A new study finds that electricity market design is the key to trade-offs between more affordable energy and lower carbon emissions.
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New Tool Monitors Implementation of Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act
New York’s climate law is one of the strongest in the world. A new tracker helps to understand progress in implementing it.
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The Fire This Time: Facing the Reality of Climate Change
While our short-term response to extreme weather must remain on adaptation, in the long run, we need to understand the reality of the warmer planet we live on and work to mitigate climate change.
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AI’s Growing Carbon Footprint
Artificial intelligence has the potential to develop game-changing ways to fight climate change — but only if we can find ways to cut its carbon emissions.
