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Open-access materials for educators everywhere.
Launched by Columbia Business School in 2023, the Open Climate Curriculum is a free platform designed to accelerate high quality teaching of topics related to climate change through sharing and AI insights.
Platform Launch
Tamer Institute Faculty Director & Platform Lead, Bruce Usher
Introduced our mission and community at the first Open Climate Curriculum event.
Live Demos & Feedback
Climate experts, faculty and practitioners in attendance
Showcased updates and gathered input from educators in real time.
AI Tools Debut
Columbia Business School, Dean Costis Maglaras
Revealed new AI features to boost course creation, insight and productivity.
By: Massimo Acquaviva, Medium
"While the topic of climate change may evoke various reactions, many around the world agree that key actions (and changes) need to be implemented to mitigate its effects. Among them are business school educators who, under the umbrella of the Open Climate Curriculum, see the value of educating business school students on the climate change challenge."
By: David Brancaccio, NPR Marketplace
"The business world will need to be fully on board if the world is going to avoid the worst outcomes of global warming. So why isn’t this topic required reading at every business school across the country? A group of climate business school educators is trying to change that with its free and shareable Open Climate Curriculum platform."
By: Andrew Jack, Financial Times
"At the COP28 summit, Bruce Usher was among professors from nearly 20 business schools in the US and beyond who pooled their resource to create an Open Climate Curriculum. Their work complements the launch of free online lectures and materials in 2021 by eight European schools, and another more recent project to share insights from schools in the Middle East."
By: Meghan Marrin, Poets and Quants
"A fresh initiative from Columbia Business School is boosting the pace at which educators can take on the challenge of climate change. Designed as a collaborative tool, the Open Climate Curriculum aims to expedite the mission of addressing climate change, because educators now have unprecedented access to an ever-growing content database."
By: Keshia Mark, CBS Newsroom
"To equip future business leaders with the skills to lead on climate change, Columbia Business School and partner universities are launching the Open Climate Curriculum. This new initiative brings together faculty from business schools across the globe to accelerate the teaching of climate change and the integration of climate action into business education by fostering knowledge sharing, collaboration, and the development of teaching materials using generative AI."