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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
Carney Vows ‘Hard Numbers’ as Big Finance Faces CO2 Reckoning: Ben Caldecott comments
Mark Carney, the former central banker turned climate finance envoy, says the banking industry is about to deliver “hard numbers’’ to show it can wipe out its
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
Call for Associate Business Fellows
Deadline for applications: Monday 10th January 2022 We are recruiting five to ten Associate Business Fellows, each with significant knowledge of financial institutions and significant
Call for Associate Research Fellows
Deadline for applications: Monday 10th January 2022 We are recruiting five to ten Associate Research Fellows, each with significant experience in climate and environmental analytics
Job, Centre Manager, CGFI
Grade 7: £33,309 – £40,927 p.a. Closing date: 12noon, Friday 26 November The UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment (CGFI) is a national centre,
Job: Research Associate, Climate Analytics and Scenarios
Grade 7: £33,309 – £40,927 per annum Closing date: 12:00 noon on 8th December 2021 The Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme (OxSFP) of the Smith School
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
