Unlike investors, banks influence corporate behavior through distinct tools: lending, underwriting, and advisory relationships. But their role in enabling — or impeding — corporate transition has ...

Public banking of land for private investment appears to have emerged since the 2007–2008 global financial crisis as a common yet under-researched policy mechanism. A snapshot investigation revealed ...

Download the 2025 Executive Training Brochure here. CCSI’s Executive Training on Sustainable Investments in Agriculture provides an interdisciplinary approach to addressing the challenges and ...

Building on more than a decade of experience working on mining governance with a range of stakeholders, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), in association with Steptoe LLP, is ...

We develop legal, policy, and financial frameworks, roadmaps, and tools to shape and regulate climate-aligned investment in renewable energy systems and to phase out and transition away from fossil ...

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In this week's EU–South Africa summit, the European Commission is launching talks with South Africa on the first-ever Clean Trade and Investment Partnership (CTIP). Designing CTIPs to foster ...

The financial system is woefully misaligned with the world’s climate goals. As providers, underwriters, and fiduciaries of trillions of dollars of capital flows annually, financial institutions must ...

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, ...

Understanding the carbon footprint of countries and companies along the oil value chain is fundamental to outlining paths to reduced reliance on fossil fuels. Adopting a supply-chain approach, CCSI ...

Accelerating the deployment of innovative technologies currently in the prototype or demonstration phase in developing countries is crucial to a just transition to global net-zero energy systems, in ...