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£1.5 million Innovate UK fund for scoping projects
Have an innovative product or service that helps to integrate climate and environmental factors into financial decision-making? From 17th January 2022 you can apply to Innovate
Oxford Sustainable Finance Group and CGFI at COP26
The Oxford Sustainable Finance Group and CGFI enjoyed a productive time at COP26. Our team hosted, presented at and joined a number of events to
Stay or Sell? The $110tn investment industry gets tougher on climate
Financial Times: Ben Caldecott comments. Some asset managers are tiring of quiet conversations with companies about emissions and are now threatening to divest As Covid-19
BBC Radio 4 – Costing the Earth, COP26: A Turning of the Tide?
World leaders have offered up a suite of promises at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Tom Heap asks how many of them will make
Global Resilience Index Initiative Launched
An international, multi-partner initiative, GRII will be the world’s first curated, open-source reference index GRII addresses the data emergency that is contributing to the climate
Firms to be named and shamed for ‘greenwashing’ their climate record: Ben Caldecott comments
A “greenwashing” watchdog is being set up by the United Nations to name and shame companies that fail to deliver on net zero commitments, according
CERAF competition matchmaking event
CERAF competition matchmaking event Monday 31 January 2022, 10:00 – 11:30 & 13:00 – 14:30 | Online Registration: TBC Innovate UK is making £5.0 million
Launch event: Green Finance Innovation Network
Launch event: Green Finance Innovation Network Monday 28 February 2022, 12:00 – 18:15 | Nexus, Discovery Way, Leeds, LS2 3AA Registration Do you fully understand the
GRiF Technical Talks – The Challenge Fund: Innovation in Risk Financing
GRiF Technical Talks: The Challenge Fund: Innovation in Risk Financing Wednesday 12 January, 8am | Online Deputy director of CGFI Nicola Ranger gave the opening
Green Horizon Summit @COP26
Green Horizon Summit @COP26 2-11 November 2021 | Glasgow & Online Dr Ben Caldecott, Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group at the University of
CGFI Events at COP26
CGFI is hosting and presenting at a number of events during COP26. Check back on this page for more content and live streams of the
COP26 EVENT: Climate-informed stress testing for the financial sector
CLIMATE-INFORMED STRESS TESTING FOR THE FINANCIAL SECTOR Wednesday 3rd November, 13:00-14:00 BST COP26 Science Pavilion and online (details to follow) How can climate-informed stress testing
Discussion Paper: “Aligning Finance with Climate-resilient Development”
Achieving climate-resilient economies and societies will not only require increasing the billions of financial flows for adaptation, but also to shift broader — public and
A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units
An important new asset-level study focused on identifying solar PV assets globally using earth observation and machine learning by Lucas Kruitwagen, co-founder at Oxford Earth Observation, has
Report: State and Trends of Spatial Finance
Spatial finance is the integration of geospatial data and analysis into financial theory and practice. This report, published 14 July 2021, is the Spatial Finance
Asset-level Data Annual Meeting 2020 Report
On 8th June 2020, the GeoAsset Project at the University of Oxford, as part of the Spatial Finance Initiative, partnered with 2° Investing Initiative to
Climate Risk Analysis from Space
Remote sensing, machine learning, and the future of measuring climate-related risk Accurate asset-level data can dramatically enhance the ability of investors, regulators, governments, and civil
Establishing the world’s best framework for climate-related and sustainability-related financial disclosures
City of London Green Finance Initiative Working Group on Data, Disclosure and Risk The introduction of a comprehensive and world-leading UK climate-related and sustainability-related financial
