Columbia Local weather Faculty at COP27

“We urgently want science and know-how to give you new, intelligent, and workable answer for tackling the local weather disaster.” — Alex Halliday, Columbia Local weather Faculty founding dean

The Columbia Local weather Faculty co-hosted a Talanoa dialogue to speed up local weather breakthroughs in small island growing states. In her opening remarks, Brianna Fruean, a younger chief from Samoa, defined that Talanoa means to “open knots, but it surely additionally means to drag out the threads, and collectively we are able to weave these threads into a brand new tapestry, and create a imaginative and prescient for a greater future.”

The Local weather Faculty co-sponsored the Local weather Justice Pavilion, based by the Deep South Heart for Environmental Justice, WE ACT for Environmental Justice and the Bullard Heart for Environmental & Local weather Justice with the help of worldwide collaborators.

Rajiv Joshi (left), affiliate dean of local weather motion on the Columbia Local weather Faculty, mentioned the way forward for local weather cooperation amongst non-state actors with co-architect of the Paris Settlement and former Columbia professor Laurence Tubiana; Kenya’s principal vitality secretary and advisor to Columbia’s Heart on International Power Coverage Andrew Kamau; and the New South Wales, Australia minister for vitality Matthew John Kean. Watch a recording of the occasion right here. Photograph courtesy of Kite Insights

“Younger folks have been courageous the place we’ve not. They’ve taken a larger share of duty in addressing the disaster and have achieved so with readability of imaginative and prescient about what have to be achieved. We should comply with their lead.” — Kristina Douglass, Columbia Local weather Faculty affiliate professor and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory archaeologist and anthropologist

Organic oceanographer Sonya Dyhrman from Columbia Local weather Faculty’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory introduced her analysis in an occasion round ocean-based carbon dioxide elimination.

A roundtable dialogue co-hosted by the Columbia Local weather Faculty and the Columbia Enterprise Faculty introduced collectively senior leaders from throughout industries and organizations to debate the subsequent era of local weather leaders. The dialogue centered on what expertise are wanted at present and sooner or later, tips on how to acquire experience in local weather and sustainability, what younger leaders are in search of of their profession paths, and tips on how to ship impression.

The Columbia Enterprise Faculty and the Columbia Local weather Faculty co-hosted an in-depth dialogue on local weather and finance. Panelists mentioned how can we create markets and mechanisms that incentivize inexperienced investing? What are the brand new and rising applied sciences we ought to be watching? And the way can we be certain that the impacts and advantages of investments and know-how are distributed equitably?