For project description and materials, see here.

For project description and materials, see here.

The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) is partnering with the Institut Louis Bachelier to conduct cutting-edge research and develop a methodology designed to measure the impact of ...

Esther Akwii is a Legal Researcher at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, focusing on Land, Agriculture, and Food Systems. Before joining CCSI, she was a senior clinical fellow at the ...

Investments in mining have the potential to transform economies. We provide resources and analysis aimed to help stakeholders—including governments of mineral-rich economies, mining companies, ...

Over the past few years, there have been growing academic, political, and social debates about the boundaries of competition and collaboration in markets for non-economic benefits, including efforts ...

Coffee, one of the world’s most popular beverages, provides livelihoods for at least 60 million people across dozens of countries. Promoting the long-term health, wellbeing, and environmental ...

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 ...

Increased investment in agriculture and food systems is critical. When sustainable, such investment supports food security. It helps address climate change and contributes to sustainable development.

The global transition to renewable energy systems will be mineral intensive and, under the current linear economy conditions, will exacerbate mining’s footprint on the planet. In addition, the ...

Investments in extractive industries have the potential to transform economies. We work to make sure that those investments are managed prudently, to ensure that they translate into long term ...

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 ...