C+S faculty member Alessandra Giannini, who co-teaches Dynamics of Climate Variability and Change, was awarded funding through the French Government’s “Make Our Planet Great Again” program. The program, which solicited applications from climate scientists from around the globe, was introduced in June by French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron in response to the United States pulling out of the… read more

Students should take away the basics of climate change and understand how climate impacts decision-making in their sector of interest. Enhancing their knowledge of the physical science is a must as well as understanding the importance of social science in the context of climate risk management.

By Apoorva Mathur, C+S ’15 Alessandra Giannini has been interested in the nexus of climate and society since first joining Columbia’s PhD program in Earth and Environmental Sciences. When she returned to Columbia in 2003 after completing postdoctoral research at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, she joined the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) staff as… read more