The Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management researches public policy, management and financial tools that can enable organizations to incorporate the physical dimensions of sustainability into routine organizational decision making. Learn more.
Our work focuses on two overarching themes of policy and management, utilizing four underlying pillars of sustainability: impact measurement, finance, education, and innovation. Learn more.
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World Economic Forum January 2021 Insight Report Features Columbia-IBM Researcher, Christoph Meinrenken
A recent analysis by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on pathways to meet the net zero carbon challenge used data from the CarbonCatalogue, a publicly available global database and visualization of product carbon footprints.
The Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability
The Earth Institute celebrated the publication of a new book and heard from panelists on the role of harnessing financial acumen to achieve long-run sustainability.
Carbon Pricing as a Policy Instrument to Decarbonize Economies
A new study analyzes the suitability of different carbon pricing mechanisms as instruments to lower greenhouse gas emissions.