Jan Walstrom, senior vice president within the Global Climate Response and ESG office at engineering company Jacobs, shares her insights at the School’s inaugural Think Bigger Innovation Summit.
With China’s economic growth slowing at the same time that its emissions continue to rise, it is clear that its carbon-intensive investment model has run its course. Chinese leaders urgently need to follow advanced economies in shifting toward greater domestic consumption and reduced energy demand.
Across (and sometimes even within) academic disciplines, no topic under the broad umbrella of climate economics tolerates quite so large a gap between facts and dogma, and between the power of a seemingly simple idea on the one hand and raw political power on the other.
At the inaugural event for the new Climate Change and New American Economy Series, Brian Deese, MIT innovation fellow and former director of the National Economic Action Council at the White House, discusses climate action and economic opportunity.
Heated academic debates between proponents and opponents of traditional economic growth under capitalism might make for good television, but they offer little in the way of solutions. Climate change demands that we achieve both growth and degrowth, depending on the activity and economic sector in question.
Our approach so far to ESG is ‘fundamentally flawed,’ argues veteran investor Terrence Keeley in a conversation with CBS Professor Shivaram Rajgopal.
With investments in dozens of companies worldwide, Ron Gonen '04 closes the loop on sustainable economic practices.
Floods, droughts, wildfires, and other deadly phenomena are what make climate change so costly. Now that a future of higher average global temperatures is inevitable, managing the problem well requires that we cut off the tail end of the extreme-weather distribution.
Here's what happened when CBS Climate Economist Gernot Wagner overhauled his leaky, 200-year-old New York City co-op.
To think that technology will save us from climate change is to invite riskier behavior, or moral hazard. Whether a climate solution creates new problems has little to do with the solution, and everything to do with us.
The wildfires should finally put to rest any of the doubts that deep and sustained cuts to our burning of fossil fuels are indeed warranted, says Professor Gernot Wagner.
Supporters gathered to celebrate previously announced honorees S. Mona Sinha ’93 and Andrea Turner Moffitt ’07, alongside two graduating students who have proved to be active champions of social enterprise.
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Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School.
Shiva Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has also been a faculty member at the Duke University, Emory University and the University of Washington. Professor Rajgopal’s research interests span financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud, executive compensation and corporate culture. His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist.
Featured Gernot Wagner
Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School.
Featuring Bruce Usher
Bruce Usher is a Professor of Professional Practice and the Elizabeth B. Strickler '86 and Mark T. Gallogly '86 Faculty Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School. The Tamer Center educates leaders to use business knowledge, entrepreneurial skills, and management tools to address social and environmental challenges, and has grown into one of the largest centers at Columbia Business School.
