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 Development. Mineral ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plastics represent one of the biggest environmental challenges to society, and their ubiquity has led to an unprecedented pollution crisis. Making Plastic Emissions Transparent provides a pathway to ...

The 2026 training brochure and application will be shared here in Fall 2025. Sign up for our newsletter for updates on the launch. CCSI’s Executive Training on Sustainable Investments in Agriculture ...

CCSI’s long-standing Executive Training on Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development has been designed for mid-level representatives from governments, companies, and civil society from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Project Duration: August 2020 to March 2025. What is ALIGN? CCSI, IIED, and Namati are partnering on an initiative called Advancing Land-based Investment Governance (ALIGN) to support governments, ...

Aligning investment with sustainable development to improve human wellbeing, reduce inequality, and operate within safe planetary boundaries.