https://ccsi.columbia.edu/
Paid Internship: Quantitative and Policy Research on Energy Transition and Climate Change
CCSI seeks a highly motivated and high-performing student (either graduate or undergraduate) to support the center’s research on the oil supermajors’ disposal and divestment of fossil fuel assets in an attempt to decarbonize their business in line with the Paris Agreement. Tasks will include cataloging and examining the sales of assets from supermajors, analyzing the metrics behind sales, scrutinizing the track records of the buyers and sellers, reading and analyzing existing literature, and further tasks as deemed necessary by senior staff. Preference will be given to candidates with strong research, writing, and quantitative skills. Knowledge of the energy industry and experience or demonstrated interest in issues related to climate change is desirable.
Paid internship: Legal and Policy Research on Energy, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development
CCSI is seeking LLM or JD student interns to assist with legal and policy research, writing, and other activities relating to various projects in CCSI’s energy and climate change work. Tasks will include cataloging and examining the allocation of liability for decommissioning of offshore oil and gas facilities and infrastructure in leases and contracts for extraction of fossil fuels in various jurisdictions; identifying, cataloging, and examining best practices in the relevant scholarly and practitioner literature regarding the prevention of environmental pollution and liability-shifting away from the lessee; and identifying potential statutory, regulatory, and contractual improvements to existing regimes or practice. Preference will be given to candidates with strong legal research and writing skills, and candidates who have experience or demonstrated interest in issues relating to energy or climate change.
Our mission is to develop and advance policies and practices that shape investment to contribute to, rather than undermine, sustainable development.
We strive for a world in which international investment contributes to, and does not undermine, sustainable development. Sustainable development includes improved human wellbeing, reduced inequalities, the protection and realization of human rights, and the protection of the planet and its ecosystems.
In this world, host governments have the tools and incentives to attract, encourage, and shape investment that advances the interests and wellbeing of all citizens. Project-affected individuals and communities can effectively participate in decision-making concerning, and oversight of, investment projects that impact them. Mechanisms to resolve disputes between communities and project proponents, as well as between governments and companies, are consistent with rule of law principles and the primacy of human rights. National and international governance systems progressively reduce economic, social, legal, and political inequality. And businesses, their investors, their lawyers, and the financial sector ensure their activities align with social, environmental, and human rights goals and principles, in policy and in practice.
Add new comment