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Mah Sissoko: Integrating Sustainability with Finance
An alumna explains how the masters program in Sustainability Management has helped her career.
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How to Scale Food Justice: A Capstone Project
A Sustainability Management capstone project is helping the nonprofit Teens for Food Justice with its mission to provide equitable access to healthy food.
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The Aftermath of China’s Waste Ban
The initial ban created a worldwide headache for scrap managers. The new version of the ban will surely lead to migraines.
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Marly Isler: From International Sailor to Environmentalist
Before enrolling in the Sustainability Management program, Marly Isler was a member of the U.S. Olympic Sailing Development Team.
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Learning to Address Sustainability in Corporate Decision-Making
As a corporate consultant, Pol Lezcano saw how critical sustainability was becoming in corporate decision-making. He enrolled in Columbia’s Sustainability Management program to learn how to tackle this issue.
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Creating a Global and Unified Perspective on Infrastructure
Growing up in Africa, Catarina Carvalho was impressed by how people’s lifestyles transformed as infrastructure developed over time. She wanted to be a part of that phenomenon.
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What it Will Take to Create a Circular Economy
Building an economy based on reusing and repurposing products will require big transformations. Participants at a recent event outlined concrete steps on how we can move forward.
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Seeing the Forest for More Than the Trees: Adding Conservation into Holistic Development
International development increasingly recognizes that governance, economic growth, health, and human well-being are inextricably linked—multisectoral programming is the order of the day. But conservation too often gets left out of the picture.
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What’s in Our Waste Bins?
Sustainability Management student Asami Tanimoto dug through the university’s trash to discover what we’re throwing out, and how we can do better.

AGU25, the premier Earth and space science conference, takes place December 15-19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This year’s theme—Where Science Connects Us—puts in focus how science depends on connection, from the lab to the field to the ballot box. Once again, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia Climate School scientists, experts, students, and educators are playing an active role, sharing our research and helping shape the future of our planet. #AGU25 Learn More
