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Director Steve Cohen was recently interviewed by Boston’s WBUR about the Ohio train derailment. The segment, “What the Ohio train derailment tells us about rail safety in the U.S.,” part of WBUR’s On Point show, examined the impact of the recent train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on the local community and the rail industry.

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Higher electricity usage in NYC homes reflects the “new normal,” and raises concerns about winter energy costs.

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The Research Program on Sustainability Policy & Management seeks a Grant & Fundraising intern to assist on a circular economy project.

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.

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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 database was developed as a collaboration of Christoph Meinrenken, affiliate of the Data Science Institute and a Research Scientist at Columbia University’s Research Program in Sustainability Policy and Management (SPM), and CoClear, a carbon data start-up founded by Columbia alumnae Sally Paridis and Erika Whillas.

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Apartment-level electricity use has increased under New York’s stay-at-home order. It could make matters worse for households already struggling economically.

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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.

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A new study analyzes the suitability of different carbon pricing mechanisms as instruments to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

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A new study analyzes the suitability of different carbon pricing mechanisms as instruments to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Carbon Catalogue makes it easy to explore consumer products’ carbon emissions and the various strategies companies are employing to reduce emissions.

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The Carbon Catalogue makes it easy to explore consumer products’ carbon emissions and the various strategies companies are employing to reduce emissions.

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In Beijing, China, last month, the Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management released its second annual report of the China Sustainable Development Indicator System.

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In Beijing, China, the Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management released its second annual report of the China Sustainable Development Indicator System.

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Building an economy based on reusing and repurposing products will require big transformations. Participants at a recent event outlined concrete steps on how we can move forward.

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Last month, the Earth Institute’s Anyi Wang and Allison Bridges presented their research on Chinese urban environmental sustainability at a conference in Mexico City.

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