To address the global climate finance gap, CCSI and Man Group have developed the Climate Allocation Compass, a Framework for Real-World Decarbonization (‘Compass-FRWD’). Compass-FRWD is a six-step ...

Strong screening processes help to identify and avoid or mitigate risks associated with larger-scale investments in agriculture and food systems at the early stage of the investment assessment process ...

Event time is displayed in your time zone. William and June Warren Hall, Room 310, 1125 Amsterdam Ave, NY, NY 10027 CCSI hosted a talk by Prof. Aris Georgopoulos on "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ...

The success of the global energy transition critically requires a shift from a solely national focus to a regional perspective. Regional cooperation is not just a beneficial opportunity; it is an ...

Investments in mining have the potential to transform economies. We provide resources and analysis aimed to help stakeholders—including governments of mineral-rich economies, mining companies, ...

The 2025 brochure will be posted in Fall 2024. Applications for the 2025 training will open in Fall 2024. Check this page for details, and sign up for our newsletter to be notified when applications ...

Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), a joint Center of Columbia Climate School and Columbia Law School. Since joining CCSI in 2008, she established and ...

To further and fully understand how to plan for the decarbonization of mining value chains, we need better data on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, neither consumers, ...

A framework of international, national, and sub-national laws and contracts governs international investment and is a fundamental factor in determining whether, when, and how countries and communities ...

CCSI, IIED, and Namati are partnering on an initiative called Advancing Land-based Investment Governance (ALIGN) to support governments, civil society, communities and peoples, and other relevant ...

The power, interests, incentives and political systemic dynamics underlying governance in the extractive industries have not been paid enough systematic attention. We must understand and address how ...

In 2017, Working Group III (WGIII) of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) was tasked with “a broad mandate to work on the possible reform of investor-state dispute ...