The Columbia Climate School’s mission is to further knowledge and educate leaders to achieve equitable and just solutions to the changing climate and related sustainability challenges.
News Highlights
Columbia Climate School Launches First M.S. in Climate Finance Program in the United States
A new interdisciplinary degree will drive impactful solutions to the climate crisis through advanced financial tools and scientific knowledge.
Celebrating the 2025 International Day of Women and Girls in Science
In honor of this year’s STEM theme, we highlight just a few examples of the exceptional women scientists from the Columbia Climate School.
Huge Areas May Face Possibly Fatal Heat Waves if Warming Continues
Even healthy young adults may not be able to survive unless they can access artificial cooling.
Education
The Columbia Climate School educates future climate leaders to address the urgent challenges facing our planet with graduate degree programs and offers other powerful learning opportunities for students, educators, and professionals.
Research
The Columbia Climate School nurtures and supports innovative research in the science, consequences, and human dimensions of climate change, including the methods of achieving a more sustainable and just world.
The Columbia Climate School encompasses Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and more than 20 other centers and programs, supporting a continuum of research from basic discovery to societal solutions.
Our Office of Research nurtures our community of established and future environmental leaders through proposal development, programmatic engagement, and compliance support.
Impact
The Columbia Climate School translates its academic work into evidence-based analysis and advice to inform decision- and policy-makers in communities, governments, industries, and nonprofits in the US and globally.
Huge Areas May Face Possibly Fatal Heat Waves if Warming Continues
Even healthy young adults may not be able to survive unless they can access artificial cooling.
Sabin Center’s Online Tracking Tools Monitor Government Actions on Climate Change
Since 2017, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law has documented policies that restrict or expand initiatives in science and climate.
Climate School Experts on the Los Angeles Fires: Causes, Impacts and Recovery
As California battles devastating wildfires, our researchers are helping to make sense of how they became so destructive, and what’s needed for recovery.