Climate, Energy, and Environment Curriculum
SIPA's Climate, Energy, and Environment Concentration provides students with robust industry knowledge
CE&E students have access to over 90 advanced electives. The curriculum provides students with:
- Advanced knowledge of global energy and environmental issues and how governments, businesses, and civil society can lead effective action
- A holistic understanding of how science, technology, policy, finance, and society shape energy, natural resources, and environmental risks and opportunities
- Quantitative and qualitative tools to analyze and model energy and environment-related issues
- Practical skills to become effective leaders in energy, natural resources, and environment in both the public and private sector
- Multicultural interaction, teamwork, and collaboration within an international context
- Experience working with clients to formulate energy and environmental policy and management decisions through applied projects, internships, and workshops
Contact Us
Doug Almond, Professor of International and Public Affairs
Concentration Co-Director
almond@columbia.edu
David Sandalow, Senior Research Scholar at SIPA's Center on Global Energy Policy
Concentration Co-Director
dsandalow@columbia.edu
Andrew Donini
Concentration Manager
andrew.donini@columbia.edu
IAB room 804
Doug Almond, Professor of International and Public Affairs; Co-Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration
David Sandalow, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs; Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy; Co-Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration
Mohammad Amir Akhtar, Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Andrew Ang, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Scott Barrett, Professor of International and Public Affairs
Jason Bordoff, Professor of Professional Practice of International and Public Affairs
Travis Bradford, Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs
Sonali Deraniyagala, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Jonathan Elkind, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
A.J. Goulding, Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Jennye Greene, Lecturer (part-time) of International and Public Affairs
James Guidera, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Gautam Jain, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Noah Kaufman, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Joshua Kazdin, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Brooks Klimley, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Zongyuan 'Zoe' Liu, Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Ruben Lubowski, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Robert Metcalfe, Professor of International and Public Affairs
Tom Moerenhout, Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
John Mutter, Professor of International and Public Affairs
Rhiannon Nelson Gulick, Lecturer (part-time) of International and Public Affairs
Benjamin Orlove, Professor of International and Public Affairs
Goksenin Ozturkeri, Lecturer (part-time) of International and Public Affairs
Luisa Palacios Alzuru, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Haydn Palliser, Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Jeffrey Potent, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
John Rhodes, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Laura Segafredo, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Gregory Stoupnitzky, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Sara Tjossem, Senior Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs
Natasha Udensiva, Lecturer (part-time) of International and Public Affairs
Harry Verhoeven, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Elizabeth Belanger, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Neri Bukspan, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Bill Burckart, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Frederic de Mariz, Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Ingrid Dyott, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Caroline Flammer, Professor of International and Public Affairs
Harry Guinness, Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Tanya Khotin, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Greg Levin, Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Jon Lukomnik, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
C. Sara Minard, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Dylan Minor, Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Lukasz Pomorski, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Frederic Samama, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Lorie Srivastava, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
David Wood, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
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Students in the Climate, Energy, and Environment concentration must complete one (1) fundamentals course, one (1) economics course, one (1) policy course, and two (2) electives. Courses may not be double-counted, i.e., fulfilling a fundamentals requirement and an elective requirement with one course.
1. Students must complete one (1) fundamentals course (3 points):
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Points |
| Points |
| INAF U6071 | Fundamentals of Environmental Economics and Policy | 3.00 |
| INAF U6072 | Energy Systems Fundamentals | 3.00 |
| | 3.00 |
2. Students must complete one (1) economics course (3 points):
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Points |
| Points |
| INAF U6065 | The Economics of Energy | 3.00 |
| INAF U6068 | Environmental Economics | 3.00 |
3. Students must complete one (1) policy course (3 points):
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Points |
| Points |
| ENVP U6239 | Politics ＆ Policy of Urban Sustainability | 3.00 |
| ENVP U6241 | Earth Systems and Environmental Policy, Politics, and Management | 3.00 |
| ENVP U6320 | Political Context of Environmental Management | 3.00 |
| IAIA U6360 | Global Politics for People and Planet: A New Paradigm | 3.00 |
| INAF U6061 | Global Energy Policy | 3.00 |
| INAF U6074 | Current Issues in Energy Policy | 1.50 |
| INAF U6087 | Environmental Advocacy: From Interest to Action | 3.00 |
| INAF U6089 | Environmental Justice and Climate Resiliency | 3.00 |
| INAF U6263 | Practicing Clean Energy Policy in the US | 3.00 |
| INAF U6268 | Agricultural Environmental Policy | 3.00 |
| INAF U6324 | Gulf Economic Statecraft ＆ the Energy Transition | 1.50 |
| INAF U6327 | Carbon Pricing | 3.00 |
| INAF U6328 | Financing the Energy Transition in Emerging Markets | 1.50 |
| INAF U6329 | Geopolitics of Energy Transition and Climate Change | 3.00 |
| INAF U6425 | Energy Transition in Europe | 1.50 |
| INAF U6431 | Asian Energy Security | 3.00 |
| INAF U6695 | Climate Finance, Policy, and the Just Transition | 3.00 |
| INAF U6702 | ESG and Corporate Political Strategy | 1.50 |
| INAF U6709 | Environment, Development, ＆ Politics in Africa | 3.00 |
| INAF U8537 | Climate Change Policy | 3.00 |
| PUAF U6314 | Climate Campaigning Reimagined: Communications and Mobilization | 1.50 |
| LAW L6038 | Climate Change Law | -- |
| LAW L6040 | International Environmental Law | -- |
| LAW L6242 | Environmental Law | -- |
| LAW L8452 | Energy Regulation | -- |
4. Students must complete two (2) electives (6 points):
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Points |
| Points |
| INAF U6690 | Sustainable Finance I: Foundations of ESG Investing | 3.00 |
| INAF U6692 | Sustainable Finance II: System-level Investing | 3.00 |
| INAF U6693 | History of Sustainable Investing | 1.50 |
| INAF U6695 | Climate Finance, Policy, and the Just Transition | 3.00 |
| INAF U6696 | Impact Investing I: Foundations | 3.00 |
| INAF U6697 | Capital Market Mobilization for Mitigating Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss | 1.50 |
| INAF U6698 | Impact Investing II: Blended Finance | 1.50 |
| INAF U6702 | ESG and Corporate Political Strategy | 1.50 |
| INAF U6704 | ESG and Fiduciary Duty | 1.50 |
| INAF U6705 | Sustainability Reporting | 3.00 |
| INAF U6708 | Impact Measurement and Management | 3.00 |
| INAF U6711 | Investor ＆ Corporate Stewardship - Influencing Policymaking - Climate ＆ Natural Capital | 3.00 |
| INAF U6718 | Quantitative Valuation of the Environment - Firms’ Economic Valuation of Nature and its Ecosystem Services | 3.00 |
| INAF U6886 | Social Impact: Business, Society, and the Natural Environment | 3.00 |
| INAF U8908 | Sustainable Investing Research Consulting Project | 3.00 |
| ENVP U6239 | Politics ＆ Policy of Urban Sustainability | 3.00 |
| ENVP U6241 | Earth Systems and Environmental Policy, Politics, and Management | 3.00 |
| ENVP U6320 | Political Context of Environmental Management | 3.00 |
| IAIA U6360 | Global Politics for People and Planet: A New Paradigm | 3.00 |
| INAF U6016 | Cost-Benefit Analysis | 3.00 |
| INAF U6040 | International Energy Project Finance | 3.00 |
| INAF U6042 | Energy, Enterprise and Development | 3.00 |
| INAF U6051 | Infrastructure Investment and Development | 1.50 |
| INAF U6057 | Electricity Markets | 3.00 |
| INAF U6061 | Global Energy Policy | 3.00 |
| INAF U6065 | The Economics of Energy | 3.00 |
| INAF U6066 | Energy ＆ Power Financing Markets | 3.00 |
| INAF U6068 | Environmental Economics | 3.00 |
| INAF U6071 | Fundamentals of Environmental Economics and Policy | 3.00 |
| INAF U6072 | Energy Systems Fundamentals | 3.00 |
| INAF U6074 | Current Issues in Energy Policy | 1.50 |
| INAF U6087 | Environmental Advocacy: From Interest to Action | 3.00 |
| INAF U6259 | Adaptation to Climate Change | 3.00 |
| INAF U6263 | Practicing Clean Energy Policy in the US | 3.00 |
| INAF U6264 | Meeting the Climate Challenge at all Levels of Government | 3.00 |
| INAF U6268 | Agricultural Environmental Policy | 3.00 |
| INAF U6269 | Climate Tech and Regenerative Entrepreneurship | 3.00 |
| INAF U6324 | Gulf Economic Statecraft ＆ the Energy Transition | 1.50 |
| INAF U6326 | Renewable Energy Project Finance Modeling | 3.00 |
| INAF U6327 | Carbon Pricing | 3.00 |
| INAF U6328 | Financing the Energy Transition in Emerging Markets | 1.50 |
| INAF U6329 | Geopolitics of Energy Transition and Climate Change | 3.00 |
| INAF U6330 | Energy Decarbonization | 3.00 |
| INAF U6343 | Global Governance: Climate Change ＆ Human Mobility | 3.00 |
| INAF U6425 | Energy Transition in Europe | 1.50 |
| INAF U6431 | Asian Energy Security | 3.00 |
| INAF U6544 | Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change | 1.50 |
| INAF U6617 | Environmental, Social and Governance Investing | 1.50 |
| INAF U6680 | Geopolitics of Oil and Natural Gas | 3.00 |
| INAF U6706 | Climate Change ＆ ESG Investing | 3.00 |
| INAF U6709 | Environment, Development, ＆ Politics in Africa | 3.00 |
| INAF U8537 | Climate Change Policy | 3.00 |
| INAF U8681 | Green Transition in Emerging Markets | 1.50 |
| INAF U8910 | Struggles for Sustainability | 3.00 |
| PUAF U6190 | Investing in the Energy Transition: exploring policy dilemmas, complexities and trade-offs | 3.00 |
| PUAF U6314 | Climate Campaigning Reimagined: Communications and Mobilization | 1.50 |
| REGN U6149 | Energy, Corporate Responsibility ＆ Human Rights | 3.00 |
| REGN U6438 | Current Environmental and Natural Resource Issues in Latin America | 3.00 |
| REGN U6538 | Global Reliance on Russian Energy | 3.00 |
| SDEV U6235 | Climate Change, Rights, and Development | 3.00 |
| SDEV U6240 | Environmental Science for Sustainable Development | 3.00 |
| SDEV U6260 | Disasters and Development | 3.00 |
| SIPA U6015 | Sustainability Management | 3.00 |
| | -- |
| LAW L6038 | Climate Change Law | -- |
| LAW L6040 | International Environmental Law | -- |
| LAW L6242 | Environmental Law | -- |
| LAW L8452 | Energy Regulation | -- |
| SUMA PS4100 | Sustainability Management | -- |