Leeds Innovation Hub

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.

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.

Professor Iain Clacher

Hackathon
Competition will bring together researchers and industry practitioners

10-11 June 2025
Call for Applications

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Collaborating for Impact: climate science and insurance industry practice

Coming Soon

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Collaborating for Impact: from research to application in the insurance industry

Coming Soon

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Leeds Innovation Hub Celebrates Climate Research Impact in the Finance Industry

One year one
and beyond

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Bridging Climate Science and Finance to Tackle Industry Challenges

Learn more about our first internship with JBA Risk Management

Internship Programme Developing the Next Generation of
Financial Climate Risk
Analysts

Internship Opportunities
2024-25

Archive 2025

Collaborating for Impact: from research to application in the insurance industry

Event - Connect Series: 25-26 March 2025, Workshop

A two-day workshop to discuss and debate two key challenges Annual-to-Decadal Predictions of Weather and Climate Perils, and European Windstorm Risk in a Changing Climate, with leading experts and key players from the insurance sector. This workshop, was hosted collaboration with Lighthill Risk Network, Oasis LMF, Journal of Catastrophe Risk and Resilience, and Maximum Information.

Research Theme Update for the Insurance Sector

Event - Connect Series: 28 January 2025, Webinar

In January, we brought together the insurance sector and broader ecosystem once again to align climate science with industry needs, review progress on key challenges, and create a platform for sharing updates and integrating advanced research for industry impact. This webinar, was hosted collaboration with Lighthill Risk Network, Oasis LMF, Journal of Catastrophe Risk and Resilience, and Maximum Information.

Archive 2024

Archive 2023

Connecting the financial industry with environmental science

Connecting leading climate scientists, financial institutions, and emerging businesses in climate, environment, and analytics. Enabling valuable connections and networks to exchange ideas, tackle challenges, and develop solutions.

Knowledge exchange and raising the bar on application

Facilitating knowledge exchange between climate science and the financial sector on green financing challenges, while building capacity through internships and enhancing expertise via continuous professional development.

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.

Contact us

Contact Patricia Grant, Leeds Innovation Hub Manager,
for more information.