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World Forum on Enterprise & the Environment
Disruption. Collaboration. Action.
The World Forum is Oxford Universityís annual high-level, high-impact flagship event on enterprise and the environment.
The latest World Forum took place on 22 September 2022. In this critical year, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment brought together world leaders in policy, business and academia to embrace bold ideas, identify priority solutions to get their firms, industries and countries to net zero and investigate how real progress can be made.
News & insights
P3S Academy delivers COP27 sustainable finance masterclass
On Monday 7 November the Public and Third Sector Academy for Sustainable Finance (P3S Academy) at the University of Oxford held it’s first in person training course.
I analysed 600,628 COP27 Tweets. Here’s what I found
As a full-time DPhil student at the Smith School, my research focuses on corporate sustainability strategies and investors' responses to climate risks.
Outdated laws protect destructive coal mining in India
Laws around India’s coal mining projects run counter to the country’s climate change commitments and should be scrapped, according to new research led by Dr Sugandha Srivastav.
In the news
How an Early Oil Industry Study Became Key in Climate Lawsuits
Ben Franta, senior climate litigation research fellow at the Oxford Smith School, comments on how the precedents set by previous litigations over tobacco, opioids, and asbestos could play a role in upcoming climate cases. "They are good examples that the legal system can take on big societal harms that the other branches of government frankly are just not addressing,” he said.
From A War Zone To Oxford’s Hottest Degree Program: One Ukrainian Student’s Journey
Poets & Quants interviews Oxford Smith School MSc student Anastasiia Zagoruichyk, a recipient of the Oxford scholarship for Ukrainians, and MSc director Dr Laurence Wainwright.
From Just Stop Oil to Egypt’s hunger striker: climate action is sparking human rights solidarity
Not only can climate activism not be silenced, it is amplifying resistance to global injustice. “It is impossible to view climate change as a separate issue from human rights,” Dr Laurence Wainwright told the New Statesman.