Climate Change, Energy & Environment

The global energy expert discusses Brazil's political economy of green innovation and its pursuit of a lower-carbon economy.

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

Cognizant of the rapidly changing climate scenario, we organized a series of targeted seminars focused on achieving net-zero targets for India.

Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai entered into a partnership with the government for a training program to build and expand the Climate Fellows program

Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai hosted a seminar the current EV ecosystem in India with experts from Columbia and local industry.

Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai hosted a seminar on air quality monitoring and management on August 10, 2022, led by Dr. Sidhant Pai, Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Columbia Earth Institute

Gautam Jain, of Columbia University's Center for Global Energy Policy, led a seminar on market potential and status of green bonds in India.

Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai, organized two information sessions on Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

The Mumbai Center launched a seminar series that leverages the scientific expertise of researchers from Columbia University.

Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai hosted a seminar on transition to renewable energy led by Kaushik Deb, Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP),

Columbia faculty visited Chile to work on the project “Massive entry of renewable energy: Operation, storage and intermittency.”

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

The Earth Institute is working with the Santiago center and local partners to help co-design, co-develop and implement the project in Chile.

COP25 is a group of seven Columbia faculty members, all experts on climate change, decarbonization and other related topics.

The Earth Institute at Columbia is helping Chile’s National Meteorological Service implement the Next Generation of Seasonal Climate Forecasts.

Kirsten Blancato spent the month of October visiting Santiago working with Universidad Catolica's Institute for Astrophysics.

Rodrigo Soteres, a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at Chile’s Universidad Católica, will spend three months at Columbia University’ s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) working with scientists Mike Kaplan and Joerg Schaefer.

Chile’s National Commission for Science and Technology (CONICYT) launched a call for proposals targeting young Chilean researchers who obtained their Ph.Ds. between 2010 and 2017, aimed at supporting collaborative projects with foreign counterparts across all scholarly areas, with funding up to USD$28,000.

The rapid growth of waste materials generated by humanity and the ever-increasing scarcity of landfill space worldwide have resulted in a major environmental problem. Faced with this challenge, municipalities and companies are seeking alternative solutions to the age-old method of landfilling. The only proven alternative for the management of the post-recycling waste, that means the waste with no value in the market or recovery potential, is thermal treatment for the recovery of energy (waste-to-energy or WTE).

The Santiago Center, in association with Chile’s Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS), organized a seminar in late June entitled “Promoting Equality through Sustainable Public Transportation."

During the last few years, Chile has been hit by record-high temperatures and an ongoing drought. This combination, which has had a strong impact in the agriculture sector, was a key determinant behind the wave of wild fires that struck the Central-South of the country last January.

Strengthening the participation of women in the clean energy revolution that Chile is experiencing, as well as promoting their inclusion in leadership positions within the sector’s companies, universities, government, and non-profit institutions, was the main objective of an extremely successful workshop organized by the Santiago Center in conjunction with the Chilean Renewable Energy Association (ACERA).