2025 CLIMATE WEEK NYC × COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL
Hard to Abate, Impossible to Ignore: Industrial Decarbonization in a Shifting Policy Landscape
Thursday, September 25, 2025
6:00-7:30 PM ET
Dinner will be provided with RSVP.
Columbia Business School, Cooperman Commons
645 W 130th Street, New York, NY 10027
Join us for a timely panel discussion on the future of heavy industry decarbonization, with a focus on cement & concrete and iron & steel production. Combined, they account for almost a fifth of global emissions. Panelists will explore the technological pathways, market dynamics, and global competitiveness at stake, as well as how recent shifts in U.S. policy under the current administration are reshaping opportunities and challenges for industrial climate action.
This conversation, co-presented by the Green Business Club and Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change at Columbia Business School and Columbia Climate School, will be moderated by Professor Gernot Wagner, faculty director of Columbia Business School’s Climate Knowledge Initiative. The Climate Knowledge Initiative provides business leaders with actionable knowledge to pick investable, scalable technologies, while unapologetically flagging areas where business and public interests diverge.
Speakers:
- Nick Ellis, Principal, Amazon Climate Pledge Fund
- Simon Brandler, VP of Policy & Public Affairs, Brimstone
- Maria Persson Gulda, Founding CTO of Stegra
- Cornelius Pieper, Managing Director & Senior Partner at BCG
- Gernot Wagner (moderator), Climate Economist and Faculty Director of the Climate Knowledge Initiative at Columbia Business School