Annual Greening Finance Prize -2024 Winners Announced
Wednesday, October 2nd – The University of Oxford has announced the winners of the ‘Insight Investment – University of Oxford Prize for Greening Finance’, the preeminent prize for this important area of research and practice. The winners were announced at the World Forum on Enterprise & the Environment 2024, Oxford University’s flagship event on enterprise […]
Estimating financed emissions for the Indian banking System
By Abhinav Jindal and Gireesh Shrimali Summary The Paris Agreement urges making finance consistent with decarbonization goals. This entails estimating the carbon footprint of investments for setting science-based targets for decarbonization. For banks, financed emissions capture the indirect impact of their investments on environment. These are three to five times that of their combined […]
Credible firm-level transition plans need credible national actions
Authors: Gireesh Shrimali, Head of Transition Finance Research, Abhinav Jindal, Senior Researcher and Energy Economist PMI, and Adrien Rose, Research Assistant in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group Firm-level transition plans are driven by climate risk management as well as net-zero targets. There has been a steady increase in the number of climate-related corporate commitments […]
Masterclass in Transition Planning
Masterclass in Transition Planning Course Director: Dr Ben Caldecott, Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group | Lombard Odier Associate Professor & Senior Research Fellow and Ira Poensgen, Policy Fellow, Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx) About Over the past years, there has been a tidal wave of companies and financial institutions publicly committing to Net Zero. […]
GEO BON Global Conference: Monitoring Biodiversity for Action
GEO BON Global Conference: Monitoring Biodiversity for Action 10 – 13 Oct 2023 Canada Visit the organiser website for full event details The Global Conference on Biodiversity and Monitoring is organized by GEO BON and its partners between 10-13 October 2023 in Montreal, Canada. One year after COP15 of the UN CBD and the landmark agreement of […]
Corporate Investments into Forestry & Biodiversity
Corporate Investments into Forestry & Biodiversity 04–05 Oct 2023 London Visit the organiser website for full event details Injy Johnstone, Research Associate in Net Zero Aligned Offsetting of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment will be speaking at the Corporate Investments into Forestry & Biodiversity summit in October. CIFB helps large scale corporations to […]
6th Annual GRASFI Conference
6th Annual GRASFI Conference 23-25 August 2023 Hosted by Yale University Visit the GRASFI website for full event details The 6th Annual Conference of the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI) is being hosted by Yale University from 23 to 25 August 2023. A number of Oxford Sustainable Finance Group members will be […]
8th International ICARB Conference 2023
8th International ICARB Conference 2023 25th – 26th September 2023 Edinburgh City Chambers Visit the ICARB website for full event details Bringing together a wide range of stakeholders to ICARB 2023 in open Panel and Workshop sessions, with leading thinkers will help to exchange ideas, encourage clarity of thinking, synthesise viewpoints and provide new insights […]
What does the future hold for Gfanz?
Ben Caldecott share’s contributes to a Sustainable View Article “There has been perhaps too much hype around Gfanz, and over-promising, and over-committing, that it’s inevitable, of course, that it doesn’t meet those over-extended expectations” Ben Caldecott, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group Full article available here
Kristina Thomas of Tagesspiegel Background, in conversation with Ben Caldecott
Ben Caldecott share’s his life, work and experiences with Kristina Thomas of Tagesspiegel Background Founder and Head of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group and Assistant Professor at the Smith School, University of Oxford, Ben Caldecott share’s his life, work and experiences with Kristina Thomas of Tagesspiegel Background Reflecting on his journey from education to “numerous […]