Climate and Solutions

Climate and Solutions, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Social Enterprise
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New York City food trucks
Climate and Solutions, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Social Enterprise

Empowering Impact: Three CBS Innovators Changing Communities through Social Entrepreneurship

These entrepreneurs share how rooting their businesses in community makes them stronger.
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Solutions, Economics and Policy, Energy Solutions
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A technician installing solar panels on a roof.
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Solutions, Economics and Policy, Energy Solutions

What the Climate Fight Is Really About

Floods, droughts, wildfires, and other deadly phenomena are what make climate change so costly. Now that a future of higher average global temperatures is inevitable, managing the problem well requires that we cut off the tail end of the extreme-weather distribution.
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Solutions
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New York City street with cars
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Solutions

NYC's Gridlock: There's Only One Way to Fix New York's Traffic Problem

Despite skepticism and concerns, congestion pricing is likely the most effective solution to address NYC's gridlock argues Charles Komanoff and Gernot Wagner.
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Finance, Climate and Policy, Climate and Solutions, Climate and Technology
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Finance & Economics
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Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Finance, Climate and Policy, Climate and Solutions, Climate and Technology

Using Betting Markets to Transform Climate Attitudes and Behaviors

A new study by Columbia Business School Professor Sandra C. Matz, Academic Director in Executive Education Moran Cerf, and Northwestern University Professor Malcolm A. MacIver, tests the effectiveness of climate prediction markets in boosting support, concern, and knowledge around climate action.
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Solutions, Energy Solutions, Green Hydrogen, Transportation
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Cable to charge an electric vehicle
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Solutions, Energy Solutions, Green Hydrogen, Transportation

How to Think about Climate-Tech Solutions

To think that technology will save us from climate change is to invite riskier behavior, or moral hazard. Whether a climate solution creates new problems has little to do with the solution, and everything to do with us.
Carbon Capture, Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Solutions, Climate and Technology, Energy Solutions, Green Hydrogen
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Smoke from wildfires blanketed cities many places across the Northeast and Midwest this week, leading to air quality at unhealthy levels in many regions and turning skies orange.
Carbon Capture, Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Solutions, Climate and Technology, Energy Solutions, Green Hydrogen

We Can't Prevent All Wildfires. But We Can Learn from the Ones Burning Now.

The wildfires should finally put to rest any of the doubts that deep and sustained cuts to our burning of fossil fuels are indeed warranted, says Professor Gernot Wagner.
Carbon, Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Finance, Climate and Policy, Climate and Solutions, Climate and Technology, Data and Business Analytics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Energy Solutions, Industry
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Climate × Data conference at CBS
Carbon, Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Finance, Climate and Policy, Climate and Solutions, Climate and Technology, Data and Business Analytics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Energy Solutions, Industry

Envisioning New Possibilities for Climate and Data at the Climate Conference

At this year's event, headlined Climate × Data, five common themes emerged from panel discussions and interactive presentations.
Capital Markets and Investments, Climate and Solutions, Finance and Economics, Real Estate
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Finance & Economics
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Capital Markets and Investments, Climate and Solutions, Finance and Economics, Real Estate

How Remote Work Is Reshaping the Future of Real Estate

Columbia Business School's Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh shares his insights from his research into how a shift toward remote and hybrid work, combined with rising interest rates and a transition to a green economy, is changing real estate.
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