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 ...

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 ...

Blended finance has gained significant recognition as a tool to mobilize private capital for sustainable development, particularly in EMDEs. When well-structured, it can help mitigate risk, attract ...

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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 ...

Today, some of the world's fastest-growing economies face some of the highest borrowing costs—even for clean energy and development projects with strong fundamentals. This is not a function of global ...

CCSI, the Columbia Society of International Law (CSIL), and the Columbia International Arbitration Association (CIAA) co-sponsored a talk by Martin Jarrett on "The Rise of Domestic Courts in ...

The recently published UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals’ Guiding Principles on Critical Energy Transition Minerals reflect global stakeholders’ continued commitment ...

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 ...

Communities affected by agricultural, forestry, and other resource investments urgently need increased funding for legal and technical support. Without support, communities risk losing access to ...

Download the PDF version of this briefing here. Introduction Understanding the diverse types of climate change-related risks is crucial for developing effective strategies to address the global ...