Sustainability Management
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Scaling the Mountains of Textile Waste in New York City
As the amount of annual textile waste produced reaches new heights, how do we find sustainable solutions?
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The False Trade-off Between Green Energy and Toxic Chemical Regulation
The long and tortuous effort to regulate toxic chemicals in America has now come up against an ironic obstacle: anti-environmental lobbying by the manufacturers of batteries and other renewable energy technologies that rely on toxic substances.
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The Challenge of Sustainable Supply Chains
The heart of the challenge of sustainable supply chains is that “out of sight” can no longer mean “out of mind.”
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The Evolution of Sustainability and Organizational Management
Management education that omits environmental and other sustainability concerns will be inadequate as managers must navigate a highly regulated and complex organizational terrain.
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Climate Risk Is Not the Only Environmental Risk Companies Should Disclose
If we want to grow our economy without destroying our planet, we need to do a better job of measuring and managing our environmental impacts.
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Professor Indrani Pal Recieves ‘Moonshot Award’ for Her Water Work in California
Pal and her team identified how a data-driven approach would enhance the state’s ability to predict water supplies.
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The Biden Environment Team and a Government-Wide Approach to Sustainability
We need to ensure that during these next few years we rebuild the American consensus behind environmental protection.
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Defining and Measuring Sustainability
An organization’s environmental performance and efforts to be good places to work and have a positive social impact are three separate concepts that should have three distinct sets of measures.
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Building the Profession of Sustainability Management
Today, most of those running sustainability units are trained in other fields. As they retire they will be replaced by well-trained sustainability professionals.
During COP30—the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference taking place November 10–21 in Belém, Brazil—experts from Columbia Climate School and Columbia University will be contributing to key events, sharing insights, and helping shape the dialogue toward ambitious, science-based solutions. Learn More
