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Lisa Sachs is Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and Associate Professor at Columbia Climate School. She leads work on natural resource governance and climate finance, and previously served as Vice Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Mining and Metals and co-chaired the SDSN network on land and extractives.

Lisa Sachs

Nov 19 2025

Carbon markets are not a climate solution

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Carbon · Carbon Market

Carbon markets were designed to make emissions cuts cheaper, but in practice they have become a dangerous distraction from real decarbonisation

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Lisa Sachs

Oct 24 2025

ESG · Sustainable Finance

The real tragedy of the horizon

Lisa Sachs

May 26 2025

Climate Change · Sustainable Finance

Distinguishing among climate change-related risks

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