Center research focuses on how climate change affects access to basic resources such as food, water, shelter and energy.
[1][2][3][4] Columbia University provided the Center for Climate and Life an initial budget $3.1 million for its first five years of operation.
[11] The center works with public and private sector partners to help stakeholders understand how climate-related impacts on essential resources will affect their bottom line and thereby guide rational business and policy decisions.
[5] The center supports Climate and Life Fellows, who lead research projects on topics central to its mission.
In 2016, the center administered its first two grants to early career scientists: hydrologist Michael Puma of Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies received a $190,000 grant to study the impact of climate change on global food systems, and bioclimatologist A.