News·Nov 18, 2025

UChicago Students Take Front-Row Seat at COP30 International Climate Negotiations

Nine University of Chicago students experienced three unforgettable packed days at COP30, the United Nations’ international climate change conference, in Belém, Brazil this November. The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth sponsored a cohort of six College students and three...
EPIC News·Nov 18, 2025

New Platform Unpacks the Benefits of Corporate Climate Disclosure

As governments increasingly require companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, the Climate Disclosure Explorer demonstrates how this public data provides much needed transparency on the sources of emissions. Users can explore by sub-industry the total emissions impact when high...
EPIC News·Nov 14, 2025

Targeted Air Pollution Investments Have the Potential to Extend Lives of Billions

Investment Update highlights the areas of the world that could benefit the most from funding to unleash air quality data and unlock national impacts.
News·Nov 13, 2025

Daily Diaries from COP30

The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth is proud to sponsor a delegation of College, Booth and Harris students to attend the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30). During three full days...
EPIC News·Nov 12, 2025

Study of One Megacity Finds Chronic Flooding Increases Deaths, Especially Among the Poor and Young

The study in Nature found rainfall and flooding accounts for 8 percent of deaths during monsoon season in one of the world’s largest cities, Mumbai, India, comparable to cancer deaths in the city. The data offers a lesson for coastal...
News·Nov 11, 2025

UChicago Scholars to Provide Technical Support in Global Effort to Deliver Farmers with Key Information to Manage Climate Risk

HCF partners with AIM for Scale in their effort to expand digital advisory services to reach 100 million farmers by 2030.
News·Nov 11, 2025

Foundational Gift will Accelerate Impactful Scholarship and a Comprehensive Climate and Energy Education Program

David and Vicki Foley, Co-Chairs of the University of Chicago’s College Parents Council, provide a generous investment to support the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth.
News·Nov 6, 2025

The University of Chicago’s Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth Celebrates One-Year Anniversary

The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth recently celebrated our one-year anniversary. We launched last fall with an ambitious mission: to combine frontier research and pioneering educational programs to produce new insights, ideas, and practical solutions that will allow society...
CSEI News·Nov 5, 2025

Three Research Assistant Professors Join CSEi in its First Year

As the Climate Systems Engineering initiative (CSEi) at the University of Chicago enters its second year, it continues to grow its research capacity and expertise across key areas of climate systems engineering.
EPIC News·Nov 5, 2025

New Climate Dataset Warns Both Rich and Poorest Nations Will See Sharp Drop in Crop Yields

Rising global temperatures will dampen the world’s capacity to produce food from most staple crops—even after accounting for adaptation, according to new Human Climate Horizons data.