Columbia’s climate school is pleased to announce the first Master’s Program in the United States for Climate Finance. In close collaboration with Columbia Business School, this interdisciplinary title will boost shocking solutions to the climatic crisis through advanced financial tools and scientific knowledge. This is the third master’s program announced by the climatic school, in addition to a Ma in climate and society and a More in weather degree.
“The world needs problem solving to address the global climatic crisis,” said Alexis Abramson, Dean of Columbia Climate School. “All in climatic school are committed to the development of solutions, and gather fields such as weather and finance as a multidisciplinary approach is fundamental, since we need all hands on the deck to respond to this urgent global challenge.”
EM in climatic finances It is a one -year title that combines courses in climate sciences, adaptation and mitigation strategies, international climatic finances, capital markets, energy financing and infrastructure, and more. The first group of students will begin classes in the fall of 2025.
“By collaborating with the Business School, we can provide students with not only a basis in central climate science, but also fundamental commercial insight,” said climate school vice regard, ViceCan Jeff Shaman. “It will equip students with financial decision -making skills necessary to respond to the climatic crisis.”
“Climate change will affect all sectors and all aspects of our lives,” said Costis Maglaras, Dean of Columbia Business School. “Just combining ideas of climate science and finance we can address these challenges.”
The new program satisfies a growing need in public and private financial institutions, as well as within multilateral organizations and the public sector, to evaluate the risks and opportunities associated with climate change and identify ways to mobilize critical finances.
“There is a real demand in businesses and finance for professionals who understand climatic variability, climate risk, the difference between mitigation and adaptation and emerging investment opportunities,” said Lisa Sachs, director of the center of Columbia on sustainable investment , associated professor at the Climate School and director of the new Climate Finance Program. “And there is a global demand for graduates who understand the challenges of climatic finances and have the experience to close the financial gaps.”
The graduates of the program will bring unique knowledge, skills and networks sets to positions oriented to solutions in the business sector, public and private financial institutions, financial institutions of development, global initiatives of climate finance, finance ministries and civil society.
All these institutions need professionals who understand the complex interactions of climate and finance, to navigate the imperatives and expectations evolving in the private sector to understand the risks and contribute to the solutions, and lead shocking reforms and approaches to boost the impact through public and international institutions.
“The program is designed to attract a student body and diverse individuals in different stages in their careers,” said Bruce Usher, a professional practice professor at the Climate School and in Columbia Business School. “The EM in the climate finance title will prepare graduates to use the last climate knowledge and financial experience to implement practical solutions to climate change worldwide.”
As part of the new climate financing title, Columbia Climate School will offer Stanley Park climatic finance scholarships to cultivate a new generation of professionals equipped to integrate the experience in climate and finance to address the climate crisis. Scholarships will be granted through a competitive application process and are open to applicants with demonstrated financial needs and the intention of contributing to public and non -profit sectors, and particularly those of countries with emerging and developing economies.
With New York City, the world’s main financial center and the United Nations home, such as the program of the program, students will interact regularly with preeminent professionals from finance, industry, public sector and global organizations.
“This title combines the best of two extraordinary schools at Columbia University: Climate School and Business School,” Sachs said. “It is essential to understand the implications and opportunities for public and private finances in the response to climate change, resorting to the world -class faculty and the main experts in each discipline.”
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