Climate School Final Capstone Briefings
Date: Friday, August 14 | Location: The Forum & Online (Link shared to registrants)
The Capstone Workshop serves as the culminating educational experience for students in the MA in Climate & Society and MS in Climate Finance programs. Students apply the practical skills and analytical knowledge they have gained through coursework to real-world climate-related challenges for a client.
RSVP HERE (Hybrid Event)
- 10:00 AM - Start
- Orogenyx Capital: Investing in Climate Adaptation & Resilience (Inst: James Ward | Team: Lukas Belecos Shaw, Alan Havelka, Yiheng Huang, Hanchi Long, Rahul Verma)
- Jennison Associates: Integrating Climate Value at Risk into Valuation (Inst: Martin Dietrich Brauch | Team: Yijia Bai, Mariana, Carvalho de Freitas, Claudia de Vecchi, Linfeng Deng, Yaojun Du, Zilun He, Hanrui Li, Jinming Zhang)
- rrreefs: Building Blue Capital - Financial Mechanisms for Reef Regeneration (Inst: Lisa Sachs | Team: Luca Clavarino, Piper Edwards, Isaac Eskind, Yani Fabre, Laura Huepenbecker, Lucas Jobe, Sara Swenson)
- Climate Analytics: Solving the Financial Puzzle for 1.5°C Aligned Transition (Inst: Lisa Sachs | Team: Esther Namulondo, Reva Bhardwaj, Jiaqi Ma, Gunjee Manlaikhuu, Irma Melikishvili)
- MSCI: Investing in Climate Adaptation and Resilience (Inst: Ana Maria Camelo Vega | Team: Boyang Liu, Chenyu Liu, Sophie Maher, Priyal Patel, Tianhua Wang, Guorun Wang, Junkai Yu)
- 11:25 AM – BREAK
- Ambition Loop: Global Plastics Treaty - Advocating Against Plastic PLU Stickers (Inst: Sandra Goldmark | Team: Jing Chen, Jasmin Cheng, Elaine Chow, Delilah Harvey, Anran Weng, Primrose Zhang, Licheng Zhu)
- Climate Central: User-Based How-To Guides for Coastal Risk Finder (Inst: Ben Orlove | Team: Julia Berak, Yaashree Himatsingka, Wenwen Lu, Jingjun Tian, Shanqing Xu, Yue Li)
- Public Citizen: Climate Attribution & Criminal Liability for Extreme Heat Deaths (Inst: Sophia Huda | Team: Jogi Amin, Saka Davaajav, Weitao Huang, Laura Lock, Alex Foley, Jiyang Gao)
- Earth Law Center: Advancing Rights of Nature in NY - Seneca Lake Case Study (Inst: Lucie Lagodich | Team: Belen Gonzalez, Ayesha Rehmat, Jaime Ng, Sophie Zhou, Jingjing Li, Bora Yagiz, Hao Xue)
- Nasdaq: Benchmarking Climate Transition Strategy (Inst: Miren Gil-Vernet Pagonabarraga | Team: Julia Barcelo Figueras, Lyuchong Zheng, Talita André, Jeff Becko, Hongjie Wang, Timothe Jekel, Zeheng Fei, Amber Li)
- 12:50 PM – LUNCH BREAK
- NYCEM: Integrating Equity in Response & Recovery Planning (Inst: Rafael Guimaraes Ramos | Team: Dasha Timasheva, Mali Gruber, Annika Bellot, Ines Mauduit, Malcolm Ma, Mikaela Zhang, Nikolas Deligiannis)
- MCURC: MCURC Protein Mix (Inst: Neeti Jain | Team: Allie, Mark, Zhi Geng, Yiming, Xiyu, Wamuyu, Qiaoyu)
- Blue Peace Middle East: Dignity in Numbers: A WEFE Multidimensional Deprivation Index for the Middle East (Inst: Lucie Lagodich | Team: Salman Al Fathan, Evelyn Fahlen, Olivia Frykman, Yuxuan Huang, Weizhuo Li, Amir Moghaddam, Yifu Zhang)
- CGIAR (Bioversity/CIAT): Climate Services Participatory Assessment Tool (Inst: Max Mauerman | Team: Nathan Aberg, Wenting Cheng, Sravanthi Dornadula, Aynsley Kretschmar, Brian Leung, Harriet Shopland-Reed)
- C2P2: Planning Today for Tomorrow - Roadmap for Vulnerable Coastal Communities (Inst: Miren Gil-Vernet Pagonabarraga | Team: Grace Cogley, Anna Comstock, Gabriela Lebron, Gildon Smith, Cianna Salvatora, Dara Towriss)
- 2:50 PM – BREAK
- CGIAR-WorldFish: Climate Service Value Chain for Aquaculture in Bangladesh (Inst: Ashley Curtis | Team: Bridget Darrah, Yuhang Dong, Weihao Guo, Jenni Jiang, Xiaoyi Shi, Zifeng Tang)
- Mudder AI: AI powered flood prediction tools (Inst: Uyen Kim Hyunh | Team: Kishan Batra, Jacob Benoist, Kavya Kowtha, Shiyi Xue, Siqi Zhang, Wenbo Zhang, Ziyue Zhou)
- Climate Imaginarium & Cafe NYC: Integrated Growth Strategy (Inst: Dannie Dinh | Team: Luha Ali Naseer, Gareth Bryant Teixeira, Erin Frank, Alex Huang, Shuaiying Li, Christopher Swain, Diana White)
- NRDC: Impact of State-Level Organic Waste Diversion Policies (Inst: Dannie Dinh | Team: Emma Kyzivat, Jasmin Zheng, Han-Sheng Lai, Leo Yan, Eva Papanikolaki, Andrew Jiang, Stephanie Hunt, Daria Richman)
- Princess Polly: Logistics Network Resilience & Sustainable Growth (Inst: Ashley Curtis | Team: Stella Camara, Ziyue Jiao, Natalie Lewis, Marissa Quintanilla,Marina Saguar, Jiwon Yun, Amber Moore)
- 4:15 PM - END
💡 Have a Capstone Idea? We invite organizations and partners to submit project proposals for consideration in our upcoming Spring/Summer 2027 cycle. For this cycle, we are particularly seeking, but not limited to, projects focused on topics such as climate resilience and risk management, water systems, climate finance, data-driven climate solutions, renewable energy, food security, and ecosystem conservation. To learn more and submit an application, please visit the Capstone project submission form.
