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Beyond COP30: Turning Climate Promises into Permanent Progress

From strengthening legal frameworks to empowering grassroots action, discover the essential strategies that Columbia and local experts recommend to ensure the promises of COP30 lead to permanent change.

Beyond COP30: Turning Climate Promises into Permanent Progress
ParisJanuary 13, 2026

Columbia Professor on Her Research During a Visitorship Program in Paris

Faculty Visitor Paige West on her collaborative anthropological work, biocultural revitalization in New Ireland, and a new study of Papua New Guinea’s burgeoning fashion industry.

GlobalDecember 30, 2025

Beyond COP30: Turning Climate Promises into Permanent Progress

From strengthening legal frameworks to empowering grassroots action, discover the essential strategies that Columbia and local experts recommend to ensure the promises of COP30 lead to permanent change.

Rio de JaneiroDecember 16, 2025

The Hard Lesson from Belém: Global climate diplomacy strained, but not broken

After COP30 in Belém exposed deep fractures in global climate diplomacy, new coalitions and adaptive leadership may be key to restoring momentum.

November 12, 2025

When Systems Cannot Bend, Opportunities Are Lost

What happens when the world shifts beneath a carefully planned project, but the funding structure demands you proceed as if nothing has changed?

IstanbulNovember 12, 2025

Should Resilience Join the Curriculum?

When universities step beyond their walls, they can help communities rebuild — and reimagine the future.


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