Climate

Columbia Business School’s sustainable marketing curriculum is shedding light on the ultimate responsibility of corporations.

“How do you build a just transition into all of this?” asked Columbia SIPA’s Bataille. “You’ve got to involve your communities and local workforces from the beginning and make them part of the solution-finding process.”

Three central takeaways emerged from the 2024 Climate Business & Investment Conference, which gathered established industry leaders, startups, investors, and researchers to discuss the climate tech market's progress and needed adjustments.

EVs shouldn’t be a luxury item, but Biden’s tariffs mean they may remain so.

Improving energy efficiency is not enough for advocates of degrowth, who espouse energy sufficiency as the best way to fight climate change. But their argument is absurd: using limited inputs more efficiently is the definition of economic productivity – which, in turn, boosts growth.

CBS hosted a workshop geared toward tackling soaring steel emissions as part of its Climate Knowledge Initiative.

A CBS center dedicated to addressing issues at the intersection of business and society is expanding to address the global climate crisis.

At the Tamer Institute's 2024 Climate Business and Investment Conference, the automotive industry leader explained how the company is overcoming EV market challenges on the road to net zero.

Why would Stripe, a payment-processing software company, be involved in funding carbon dioxide removal solutions? Nan Ransohoff recently visited CBS to share why the company is building up its capacities to take on climate change.

While the availability of cheap electric vehicles is good news for the planet and for consumers everywhere, it is bad news for shareholders and employees of Western car companies, and both the United States and Europe are considering imposing import tariffs on Chinese EVs. But tariffs are the wrong approach.