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Many Latin American countries have had a long and close energy trade relationship with the United States. However, some of the Trump administration’s executive orders (EOs) have the...
The Biden administration took office with ambitious plans to accelerate America's clean energy transition. Over four years, it enacted major climate legislation, poured billions into new clean energy...
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Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA for a student-only lunch and roundtable with CGEP Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Nigel Topping, Founder of Ambition Loop and UN Climate Change High-Level Action Champion COP26. The discussion will be moderated by Gautam Jain, Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy, at Columbia SIPA.
Mr. Topping will discuss how the conversation on mobilizing international climate finance has evolved since COP26, covering the launch of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), which he confounded with Mark Carney, the commissioning of the Stern Songwe report on Financing Climate Action, and work on accelerating actual investment pipelines. Beyond multilateral development bank reform, what other practical changes are needed to reach the $2.4 trillion per year needed in emerging markets and developing economies?
Biography
Nigel Topping, CMG was appointed by the UK Prime Minister as UN Climate Change High Level Champion for COP26. In this role Topping mobilizes the global private sector and local government to take bold action on climate change, launching the Race To Zero and Race To Resilience campaigns and, with Mark Carney, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. He is now a global advisor to governments, financial institutions, and private companies on climate and industrial strategy. He is a non-executive director of the UK Infrastructure Bank, an honorary professor of economics at Exeter University, and was awarded the honor of CMG in Queen Elizabeth’s final honors list in 2022. Topping read mathematics at St Johns and won two rugby blues, before entering a career in the manufacturing industry.
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Nuclear energy is essential for addressing climate change and growing electricity demand. The United States has joined over twenty other countries in pledging to triple its nuclear energy...
Join the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA's Women in Energy initiative (WIE), the New York University SPS Energy, Climate Justice, and Sustainability Lab, and NYU’s Center for Global...
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• Abramson Family Auditorium
1307 L Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Please join the Women in Energy initiative at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA for a student roundtable lunch and discussion featuring Women in Energy’s...
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• CGEP Large Conference Room
1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027
The Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) framework[1] was designed to help accelerate the energy transition in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) while embedding socioeconomic[2] considerations into its planning and implementation.
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by Gautam Jain & Ganis Bustami• March 03, 2025
