Columbia University’s Columbia School of Climate Affairs today marks the US’s first new Masters’ Degree Program for Climate Finance, aimed at training experts to address the challenges and opportunities of climate change and the global energy transition. The start has been announced.
The programme is offered in close collaboration with Columbia Business School to provide “interdisciplinary degrees” that combine financial and scientific knowledge, and according to the school “promote impactful solutions to the climate crisis.” “You can do it.
The new courses show global demand for sustainability-related skills as businesses and countries implement climate-related commitments and begin taking action globally to meet growing sustainability reporting and regulatory compliance requirements. Because it is increasing. According to the Columbia School of Climate, the course aims to assess risks and opportunities related to climate change and identify routes, and to “enhance the growing needs within public and private financial institutions, multilateral organizations and the public sector.” It has been started to meet. Mobilize critical finance.”
said Alexis Abramson, dean of the Columbia School of Climate.
“The world needs problem solvers to deal with the global climate crisis. Everyone at Climate School is working on developing solutions and all hands-on decks are available to meet this urgent global challenge. Because it is necessary, we are working to put together areas such as climate and finance as an interdisciplinary approach.”
As it will be offered as a one-year program and the first set of students are set to enter this fall, the new degrees will be the ones to include climate science, adaptation, mitigation strategies, international climate finance, capital markets, energy and infrastructure funding Combine courses in the fields leading up to procurement. .
Costis Maglaras, dean of Columbia Business School, said:
“Climate change affects every sector and every aspect of our lives. These challenges can only be addressed by combining climate science and financial ideas.”
Lisa Sachs, director of Colombia’s Center for Sustainable Investment, added that she is an associate professor at the Climate School and director of the new Climate Financial Program.
“For practitioners who understand climate change, climate risks, differences between mitigation and adaptation, and emerging investment opportunities, there is a real demand for business and finance, and understand the challenges of climate financing and raise funds. There is global demand for graduates who have the expertise to bridge the gap.
