The Three Cairns Climate Fellowship at Columbia Business School awarded fellowships to its inaugural class of 24 MBA and EMBA students who completed eight projects at the intersection of climate change and business during the spring 2018 semester. The Three Cairns Climate Fellowship was endowed by Lise Strickler ’86 and Mark Gallogly ’86, and launched in the spring 2018 semester. Their recently established family office, Three Cairns Group, has a core commitment to making investments in decarbonizing the world economy. The Three Cairns Climate Fellowship provides support to MBA and EMBA students who complete semester- or year-long projects. Students may apply individually or in teams for projects that work with Columbia research faculty, or any type of organization or business in the U.S. or abroad that is addressing sustainability and climate change issues. Projects focus on using markets and business knowledge, skills, and tools to identify and implement solutions to mitigate, adapt to, or reverse climate change and its impacts. The following Three Cairns Climate Fellows were selected from a larger applicant pool after submitting their applications: American Carbon Registry Project: ACR Offset Supply Forecast Team members: Aparna Ramakrishnan ’18, Kimberly Kung ’18, Yvonne Fung ’18, and Vicky Darbouze ’18 Closed Loop Project: Defining the Climate Impacts of Circular Supply Chains Team members: Kumar Jeev ’18, Roderick Feltzer ’18, and Avisek Das ’18 Climate and Forest Capital Project: The REDD+ Acceleration Fund: A Financial Bridge to End Deforestation Team members: Katie Princisvalle ’19, Morgan Manoff ’19, and Nabil Bennouna ’19 Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Project: Investment Strategy to Monetize the Value of IRI ENSO Projections Team members: Vincent Su ’19, Maeve Tsivanidis ’19, Petter Roald ’19, Dara Blume ’19, and David Wei ’19 Breakthrough Energy Venture Project: Investment Strategy Team members: William Morrison ’18, Wendy DeWolf ’18, and Andres Palacios Schippert ’18 Plentify Project: Market Study of Household Water Heaters in the United States Team members: Jessica Beidelman ’18 and Nissa Ostroff ’18 CellAround Project: Decentralization of the Electric Grid Team members: Jose Torres ’18 and Chris Moon ’18 Lightsmith Group Project: Climate Resilience Market Study of Latin America Team members: Yen Le ’18 and Sheldon Cheng ’18 Learn more about the Three Cairns Climate Fellows and their projects → Read more about the fellowship, including the student and client application forms →