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Energy Explained
Get the latest as our experts share their insights on global energy policy.
Nuclear Regulatory Reform Beyond the Permitting Bill
The BAAJA bill could facilitate nuclear development by streamlining federal environmental reviews and providing greater certainty for permitted projects.
Podcasts
Hear in-depth conversations with the world’s top energy and climate leaders from government, business, academia, and civil society.
Aliya Haq and Rich Powell on Energy Affordability and the New Congress
Affordability was one of the key issues that drove US voters to the polls last week, and the resulting message for the newly elected Congress is clear: driving...
Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast
• November 10, 2026
Events
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November 17, 2026
• 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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AI Data Centers: Is Space the Next Frontier?
Putting data centers in space once seemed fanciful. Today, a growing number of companies have started doing so.
Event
Columbia’s Carbon Accounting Project will study current methods that quantify and measure carbon emissions, and investigate the potential for new methods to create greater accountability and carbon emissions reductions across full product life cycles and major sectors of the economy.
The project will focus on the framework for carbon emissions accounting standards provided by the  Greenhouse Gas Protocol, developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the most comprehensive and widely-used global standard for companies to measure and report their greenhouse gas emissions. The Corporate Value Chain Scope 3 standard measures indirect emissions that result from activities and assets not controlled or owned by the reporting organization across its value chain. This project will study and build on existing methodologies to account for value chain emissions reduced or eliminated by innovative products and services, including the role that materials and sustainable applications can play in achieving emissions reductions.
Drawing on input from key stakeholders representing environmental groups, industry, academia, and data and accounting firms, the project will investigate the potential for new accounting methods to calculate the environmental benefits of products and technologies that reduce or eliminate harmful greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, as well as developing new tools for decision-makers to accelerate global progress towards 2030 and 2050 emissions targets.
Dow (NYSE: DOW) and The Nature Conservancy are early supporters of this work, bringing significant global climate-related expertise and capabilities in their respective fields.Â
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Publications
What economists just don’t get about climate change
The case against cheap climate policy
Nepal Floods Test Resilience of Its Hydropower-Dependent Economy
The Nepal flood that has left 1,000 people dead and close to 4,000 people missing, as of September 1, has also damaged hydropower plants that the country relies on.
