"The event brought together 36 professionals and over 100 Columbia students to explore the skills, roles and projects driving sustainability today. In recent years, sustainability has become embedded in nearly every field; cities have become major climate employers and investors look for green portfolios. Across sectors, collaboration is essential and requires people who can translate between engineering and policy, finance and community needs. Events like the Sustainability Careers Reception create those connections in real time."
"For the first time, roundtables were split across two rooms, creating a more intimate setting and deeper discussion. Smaller groups made it easier to ask direct questions and hear multiple perspectives during the first hour before the room opened into broader networking during the second half of the event. Throughout the evening, the rooms buzzed with conversation as they turned into cross-sector maps. At one table, a practitioner from BNY (a global financial services company) compared financing pathways."
On October 24, the Columbia Climate School hosted a Sustainability Careers Reception at the Penn Club in Midtown Manhattan that brought together 36 professionals and over 100 students. Attendees explored the skills, roles and projects driving sustainability as sustainability becomes embedded across fields and cities emerge as major climate employers. Students represented eight Climate School partner programs. For the first time, roundtables were split across two rooms to foster intimate discussion, followed by broader networking. Conversations mapped cross-sector work, with participants from finance, logistics, real estate, city and state agencies describing financing pathways, supply chains, building retrofits, and program implementation.
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