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These Columbia-affiliated founders discuss how their innovations are shaping a more water-conscious world.

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.

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.

At this year’s event, headlined Climate × Data, five common themes emerged from panel discussions and interactive presentations.