Don’t just take their word for it: a transparent way to assess corporate climate plans
An open-source method to estimate a company’s future emissions from its actual production plants, even when the company won’t tell you. Lead Author, Dr David Kampmann, Career Development Fellowship in Sustainable Finance Over the past two years, some of the world’s biggest polluters have quietly walked back their climate promises. Steelmaker ArcelorMittal, for example, cancelled […]
The frontiers of sustainable finance
Article by Ben Caldecott, Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group On Monday 29th June we held the fourth Oxford Sustainable Finance Summit at Rhodes House in Oxford: one day, a single track, immediately after London Climate Action Week. What follows draws on my opening remarks. At last year’s Summit we were in a soul-searching mood. After a decade […]
“Planetary Intelligence” lecture with Will Marshall, Co-Founder and CEO of Planet.
We are delighted to host a special lecture at the University of Oxford by Will Marshall, Co-Founder and CEO of Planet. Planet built and runs the largest fleet of Earth observation satellites ever assembled, imaging the entire land surface of the Earth every day. Space and AI are two of the most exciting fields in […]
Finance and the Global Assessments Symposium
A one-day academic symposium on the state of evidence and the research frontier in finance for climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and nature. About the Symposium The Symposium convenes researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and IPCC and IPBES authors working on finance, to discuss the state of evidence and identify research priorities relevant to the IPCC Seventh Assessment […]
Debating Whether Climate Risk Is Already Priced In
Dr Ben Caldecott, Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group recently featured in an Oxford‑style debate on the ESG Currents podcast examining whether climate risk is already reflected in financial markets. Hosted by Bloomberg Intelligence EMEA ESG integration analyst Grace Osborne, the discussion brought together contrasting views from Dr Jakob Thomae, co‑founder and CEO of […]
The US cattle industry is eating its own tail
Stephanie Walton has published a new commentary in the Financial Times examining the growing systemic risks within the US cattle and beef industry, set against the backdrop of the 22‑year megadrought in the western United States. In the article, titled “The US cattle industry is eating its own tail,” Walton responds to recent coverage of […]
Oxford Sustainable Finance Summit
Immediately after London Climate Action Week, we bring the conversation to Oxford for our fourth annual Oxford Sustainable Finance Summit. On Monday 29th June at Rhodes House and its gardens, leading researchers will join practitioners, policymakers, regulators, and civil society organisations to examine the developments, trends, and questions that matter most for the future of […]
Britain needs a climate reset, not a climate culture war
The UK should keep net zero as the destination but overhaul the architecture that gets us there Those in the climate community will argue that the last thing we need is a debate about the UK’s climate targets. But the debate is already upon us. Reform wants to scrap the net zero target. The Conservative Party has […]
Towards Environmental Deterrence
If nature is a national security threat, we need to act like it The Joint Intelligence Committee, which assesses raw intelligence gathered by British intelligence agencies, has concluded that the destruction of nature poses a direct threat to national security. The assessment, published in January after months of delay, warns of cascading risks from ecosystems […]
Financing the agentic economy
The agentic economy is coming. Not chatbots, not copilots, but autonomous AI agents that can plan, decide, transact, and spawn sub-agents to carry out tasks their principals may never have explicitly authorised. The open-source platform OpenClaw has triggered a national frenzy in China, with local governments subsidising “one-person companies” built on networks of agents, and […]