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Don’t just take their word for it: a transparent way to assess corporate climate plans
An open-source method estimates a company’s future emissions from its actual production plants, even when the company won’t tell you.
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Reimagining the Ocean: The Living System at the Centre of Enterprise
MSc student Camila Llinás Restrepo writes about the ocean’s role in society and business, portraying the ocean as a living system that supports global ecological, economic, and social stability.
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To the Extent that Matters for Investors, Climate Risk is Already Priced In
Oxford Sustainable Finance Group Director Ben Caldecott joins the Bloomberg ESG Currents podcast with Grace Osborne to debate Dr Jakob Thomae, Co-Founder and CEO of Theia Finance Labs.
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The US cattle industry is eating its own tail
Researcher Stephanie Walton writes on the US cattle industry's self-destructive practicies in an exclusive opinion piece for the Financial Times. "The longer this goes on, the greater the costs will be for everyone involved."
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Microsoft rejects speculation it's axing its carbon business
In this Bloomberg article exploring Microsoft's approach to carbon removal procurement, Ben Caldecott comments on the dependency of the voluntary carbon removals market on a single buyer in a single sector as 'a serious vulnerability'.
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Sustainable Finance Executive Programme marks 10 years at Oxford
Since launching in 2016, the programme has trained more than 280 executives from over 100 countries, drawn from across the intersection of finance and sustainability: financial institutions, the civil service, supervisory authorities, regulatory agencies, central banks, NGOs, and philanthropy.
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Mark Carney’s journey from climate ‘visionary’ to pipeline promoter
"The stress testing was an important initiative that was widely copied in other countries, said University of Oxford’s Ben Caldecott, director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group."
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Mark Carney’s fossil fuel pivot bewilders climate experts and business leaders
Ben Caldecott comments on the Canadian Prime Minister's approach to climate risk at the Bank of England and recent policies in Canada.