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View the webinar The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), in association with Steptoe LLP, hosted Session 4 of our four-part webinar series, Candid Reflections on Resource-Based ...

Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), a joint Center of Columbia Climate School and Columbia Law School; Associate Professor of Professional Practice at ...

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 ...

The recently published UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals’ Guiding Principles on Critical Energy Transition Minerals reflect global stakeholders’ continued commitment ...

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, ...

Sponsors Partial support for the 2026 training is provided by ALIGN. ALIGN supports governments, civil society, communities and peoples, and other relevant actors in strengthening the governance of ...

To be beneficial for a country’s development, non-renewable resource extraction should be leveraged to build long-term assets—such as transportation, power, water, and information and communications ...

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 ...

Live since October 2015, CCSI’s OpenLandContracts.org is an online, searchable and user-friendly database of publicly available contracts for commercial agriculture, forestry and renewable energy ...

Investment Law & Policy 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 ...

Recognizing that more and better private sector investment is widely seen as critical to advancing economic development and achieving the SDGs in low- and middle-income countries, the ALIGN initiative ...