LEEDS INNOVATION HUB
The CGFI Leeds Innovation Hub is a place for financial institutions, academics, climate scientists, and analytics businesses to connect, collaborate, and innovate.
Supporting Innovation and Commercialisation
Hosted at Nexus, University of Leeds, the Hub is a platform to connect wider UK science and innovation with financial institutions, focusing on climate and environmental analytics.
The Hub nurtures and supports a vibrant emerging ecosystem of enterprises providing climate and environmental analytics (CEA) to finance institutions.
It provides a route by which needs are understood and the latest science is made accessible, commercialised, and exported globally, placing the UK as global leader for climate and environmental analytics for financial institutions.
The opening of the CGFI Innovation Leeds Hub is the next step in accelerating the use of climate and environmental risk analytics into institutional investment and finance.
Developing the Next Generation of Financial Climate Risk Analysts
Programme: Placement and Internships
The demand for climate and environmental analytics (CEA) and data from financial institutions is growing rapidly. As financial sectors strive to navigate the complexities of incorporating climate science into their strategies, there emerges a crucial need to cultivate skills and expand talent capacity.
Archived
Collaborating for Impact: climate science and insurance industry practice
Connect Event: 6 March 2024 - archived
A detailed discussion of four of the biggest challenges facing the insurance sector and how to align cutting edge climate science and practical applications in the insurance sector.
Net Zero Transition Plans: credibility and actions
Connect Event: 12 February 2024 - archived
Join us to learn more about how transition plans can enable the journey to net zero and climate resilience.
Leeds Innovation Hub: opening
News: October 2023
We are delighted to announce the opening of the CGFI Leeds Hub, based at Nexus - University of Leeds.
Connecting the financial industry with environmental science
Meet and engage with leading climate scientists, financial institutes, and emerging climate, environment and analytic businesses. Build valuable connections and networks to exchange climate challenges, ideas, and solutions.
Knowledge exchange and raising the bar on application
Our roundtables - convening climate scientists, innovative entrepreneurs and financial sector leaders to share the latest perspectives on green financing challenges. Thought leadership - guiding ecosystem stakeholders with rigorous and empirically-robust insights on challenges faced by financial institutions. Placements - co-funded year-long placements bringing additional expertise, fresh perspectives and extra capacity to your project.
Innovation and early stage business support
Our developing programme of science sprints and hackathons, mentoring, and our early stage business incubator will support startups and growing businesses through every phase of their entrepreneurship journey.
