We hosted our third Oxford Sustainable Finance Summit in July on the theme of reinvention and renewal.
A recalibration of sustainable finance and investment is underway. After a decade of continuous expansion, we are entering a period of reinvention and consolidation. Geopolitical upheaval, economic uncertainty, and rapid advances in technologies such as AI are reshaping risks, opportunities and the very architecture of markets. They also create new challenges for how to mobilise capital to achieve environmental and social outcomes.
Over two days we interrogated polarisation and populism, litigation risk, the promise and perils of AI, the financing of India’s green transition, and the future of carbon markets, among many other things. We also examined what must change systemically within finance, identifying where effective reinvention is already under way and the pathways that exist to achieve resilient and sustainable economies.
The Summit brought together leading researchers with practitioners, policymakers, regulators, and civil society organisations, all in some of Oxford’s most beautiful and historical buildings.
The recordings for all the sessions at the Summit can be found here.
- Climate change: escaping the polarisation trap
- Litigation risk in the new physical and transition risk landscape: Who will pay?
- What does the EU’s deregulation push mean for sustainable finance?
- AI as an enabler for sustainable financial markets – can it keep the promise?
- Stewardship and engagement: Learnings from successes and failures
- GLP-1 receptor agonists and the future of health, economies and food systems
- Transition Plans: Facilitating transition finance and growth
- Financing India’s green transition
- Investor expectations in a changing world
- Financial instruments for nature: Guiding investors to scalable and impactful returns
- Future of climate politics internationally: Tackling polarisation in the age of Trump
- Carbon removal budgeting & carbon markets: Tools for net zero alignment
- Spatial finance to reduce sustainability reporting burdens: Fix or fad?
- Does corporate climate target-setting have a future?
- Closing debate – “This House believes the global ESG backlash is justified”
The Summit will be back, with further details being announced in due course.