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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Enhancing Sustainability Education in China’s Secondary Schools
The Earth Institute’s Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management, along with colleagues from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, are working with the Tencent Foundation to develop a set of sustainability education modules for secondary school students in China.
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.
New Data Suggest COVID-19 Is Shifting the Burden of Energy Costs to Households
Apartment-level electricity use has increased under New York’s stay-at-home order. It could make matters worse for households already struggling economically.