Sustainability and Environment

On November 22, 2023, the City Diplomacy Lab and Columbia Global Centers organized a webinar, "Cities and Climate Solutions: Air."

Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai interviewed GSAPP adjunct professors for a Peri-Urban Water Management in Gujarat summer workshop.

Representatives from CGEP met with government specialists and NGOs to discuss development of minerals critical for the global energy transition.

We partnered with Columbia University’s Office of Undergraduate Global Programs for the Spring 2023 Global Collaboratory.

We partnered with Columbia University’s Office of Undergraduate Global Programs, to help undergraduate students engage with plastic pollution on a global scale.

This was the second session from our ‘Healthy Cities’ webinar series that focused on air pollution especially in sub- Saharan Africa.

This first session in partnership with the Kenya Alliance of Resident Associations and the Center for Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute in a two-part series that takes a hard look at Kenya’s Urban Transportation Infrastructure in an age of climate change. This session discussed the state of NMT infrastructure in Kenya. 

Water-Related Disasters account for about 90% of natural disasters globally. Global warming and climate change have resulted in changing weather patterns around the world. In various regions, rainfall patterns have changed drastically resulting in unprecedented river flows. This webinar sought to minimize the impact of flooding both in Kenya and India through the development of mitigation measures geared towards minimizing the impacts of floods.

The role for Cabañas will be is to ensure that all of the UN Sustainable Development Goals are incorporated throughout the university.

The launch tour in Brazil also covered the cities of São Paulo on April 19 and Brasília on April 18. 

Open Innovation Day brings students from Columbia University and from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro to present prototypes of innovative solutions for the challenges faced by big cities. 

Columbia professors and Brazilian specialists engaged in the discussion of topics such as environment, urban planning and public health issues in the world’s largest cities. 

The Latin American hub of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) was launched on October 13, in Rio de Janeiro. 

Since 2012, the Lemann Foundation has been supporting the Science without Borders (SWB) program at partner universities: Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and UCLA.

The Columbia Global Center| Rio de Janeiro is pleased to inform you of a recent agreement with the State of Rio de Janeiro through the State´s research funding agency, known as FAPERJ. 

The ceremony took place at the Guanabara Palace, home of the governor of Rio de Janeiro state, where President Lee C. Bollinger launched the eighth global center of the network exactly a year ago.

Columbia University has announced the second Request for Proposals for the President’s Global Innovation Fund.  

President Lee C. Bollinger has announced plans to provide grants to faculty members to leverage and engage Columbia’s Global Center network.