Exploring the HVAC sector’s role in decarbonizing the built environment while meeting surging heating and cooling demand ...
Ladan Mehranvar is a senior legal researcher for the Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment, with a focus on investment law and policy, and human rights and sustainable investment. In addition, ...
Many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will only be achieved if the population has access to basic services, such as access to water, power, transport, and telecommunications. However, in ...
CCSI and the World Bank collaborated in 2012–2013 to systematically assess the potential and challenges of power–mining integration in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To that end, CCSI built the Africa ...
In 2012, CCSI published a series of four policy papers presenting case studies on shared use of mining-related infrastructure: 1) mineral railways and ports, 2) power infrastructure, 3) water ...
The Working Group III (WGIII) process at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) to reform investor–State dispute settlement (ISDS) is about more than drafting legal text ...
Photo by Tasha Lyn on Unsplash. Note: CCSI submitted a response to the OECD public consultation on investment treaties and climate change that builds on the text of this piece. It is available via the ...
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 ...
At the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), we think of investment facilitation differently, with a focus on sustainable development for the benefit of host countries and communities ...
Understanding the diverse types of climate change-related risks is crucial for developing effective strategies to address the global climate crisis. A holistic yet disaggregated approach allows for a ...
Phasing out coal power is a fundamentally important and urgent step in combating climate change. Even though coal plants were built with the expectation that they would operate for a certain time to ...
The zero-carbon energy transition is the solution to the 2022 energy crisis and a fundamental part of the solution to the global climate crisis. But there are relatively low levels of investment in ...
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