The Columbia Climate School is

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

's school of trans-disciplinary climate research. Announced in July 2020, the Climate School is the first new school to be established at the university in 25 years. As of January 2021, the school has announced one degree program, a Master of Arts in Climate and Society. Since 2021, the Columbia Climate School has been the official university partner of

The Climate Group The Climate Group is a non-profit organisation that works with businesses and government leaders around the world to address climate change. The Group has programmes focusing on renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Launched in ...

for

Climate Week NYC Climate Week NYC is an event that has taken place every year in New York City since 2009. The summit takes place alongside the UN General Assembly and brings together international leaders from business, government and civil society to showcase gl ...

annually.

Leadership

The school is led by founding dean

Alexander Halliday Sir Alexander Norman Halliday (born 11 August 1952) is a British geochemist, an academic who is the Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School, and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He joined the Earth Institute in Apri ...

(who also directs Columbia's Earth Institute) and co-founding deans

Jason Bordoff Jason Eric Bordoff (born 1972/1973) is an American energy policy expert, and a researcher specializing in the intersection of economics, energy, environment, and national security. In April 2021, he was named a Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia ...

Ruth DeFries Ruth S. DeFries (born October 20, 1956) is an environmental geographer who specializes in the use of remote sensing to study Earth's habitability under the influence of human activities, such as deforestation, that influence regulating biophysic ...

, and

Maureen Raymo Maureen E. "Mo" Raymo (born 1959) is an American paleoclimatologist and marine geologist. She is the Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School, Director of the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, the G. Unger Vetle ...

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