Events

Past Event

Climate Risk, Capital, and the Institutions That Price the Future

April 24, 2026
12:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Schermerhorn Hall (Room 501), Columbia University, 1198 Amsterdam Avenue, New York

Event Description

Climate change is repricing assets, disrupting food systems, and straining energy grids faster than most institutions have adjusted to account for it. This event is at the intersection where physical science meets capital allocation. This conversation explores what that vantage point looks like in practice. The event will cover ground that rarely gets covered honestly: where science, finance, and policy have talked past each other, where well-intentioned frameworks have obscured more than they’ve clarified, and where the field’s own vocabulary has become part of the problem. This event will consider distinguishing between the genuine tradeoffs that require hard choices and the apparent conflicts that dissolve once the framing improves. Both matter, and conflating them has cost the field time it doesn’t have.

Event Information

Free and open to the public; registration required. For more information, please email Tricia Brown at [email protected] 

Hosted by the Columbia Climate School