This recognition reflects not only Cohen’s decades-long dedication to sustainability, but also the far-reaching impact of his work as an educator, adviser, and builder of community.

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Noah Kaufman, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy who worked in the Biden White House, believes studying specific questions — like how to decarbonize while keeping electricity affordable — is more useful than projecting macroeconomic impacts decades down the road. “There are just a lot of examples in the world where we do recognize that there are large risks, but we don’t pretend we can optimize our response to them,” Mr. Kaufman said. “We just try to avoid them in a reasonable way.”

Trump’s approval rating has reached the lowest point of his second term, according to a series of national polls. SIPA's Robert Y. Shapiro comments that "the economy, the Epstein scandal, the disruption ICE has caused, and the defeats that his party has had in the off-year elections do not bode well for Republicans."

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Adjunct Senior Research Scholar Rajan Menon was interviewed on ABC News Daily for a conversation titled, "Is Ukraine any closer to a deal with Putin?"

A study published in the National Bureau of Economic Research found that buyers who see flood risk data on listings are more likely to look for homes with lower risk. SIPA's Robert Metcalfe, who worked on the study, found that it "significantly impacted the tours they took, because they weren't looking at high flood risk homes, and it affected where they ultimately made an offer."

Robert Shapiro, professor of political science at Columbia University, states that "Trump has been very consistent about trying to soak up as much of the news media's attention that he can."

SIPA Lecturer of International and Public Affairs, Jonathan Corrado, writes that all belligerents in the Korean War suffered from cognitive biases that led to misjudgment and escalation.

Thomas J. Christensen, Professor of International Relations and director of the China and the World Program at Columbia SIPA, called for the United States to recommit to a pragmatic approach to great power competition. He said this means prioritizing partners, avoiding maximalist gestures, and better understanding China as a rising power.