CCSI’s Ana Maria Camelo Vega joins a panel for a timely discussion on how insurance can drive sustainable development by protecting against disaster risk, enabling investment, and scaling capital in ...

Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), a joint Center of Columbia Climate School and Columbia Law School; Associate Professor of Professional Practice at ...

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Sponsors Partial support for the 2026 training is provided by ALIGN. ALIGN supports governments, civil society, communities and peoples, and other relevant actors in strengthening the governance of ...

Coffee, one of the world’s most popular beverages, provides livelihoods for at least 60 million people across dozens of countries. Promoting the long-term health, wellbeing, and environmental ...

The general misalignment to science-based targets is particularly concerning because any misalignment to them practically nullifies any existing net-zero pledge. Furthermore, the threshold this ...

Aligning investment with sustainable development to improve human wellbeing, reduce inequality, and operate within safe planetary boundaries.

The EU started it In the early 1990s, the European Economic Community—the predecessor of the European Union (EU)—spearheaded an initiative to promote international cooperation in the energy sector, ...

To be beneficial for a country’s development, non-renewable resource extraction should be leveraged to build long-term assets—such as transportation, power, water, and information and communications ...

This Perspective discusses the increasing number and size of large-scale farmland acquisitions in Africa by foreign investors over the past five years, including the opportunities and risks created by ...

Companies involved in commercial wind and solar projects are facing heightened scrutiny of their human rights performance. This Business Guide provides companies with information and strategies to ...

The study reviews 40 Swiss IIAs – agreements concluded over roughly the past 50 years – in light of those five principles. Based on that review, the report concludes both that Swiss IIAs often risk ...