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Bloomberg covers analysis from Noah Mihan, MSc alumnus and Smith School researcher, which assesses 220 American Republican representatives on how they might vote in a potential repeal of clean energy subsidies. 

'Opportunities for Youth' covers Summer SCENE 2025, the Smith School's immersive online course that aims to engage youth and early-career professionals from the Global South in shaping sustainability policies. 

Reuters covers a recent Oxford Sustainable Finance Group report which found that the green energy transition continues at pace despite higher interest rates, and Brian O'Callaghan comments on green energy development trends in the USA. 

The FT highlights the Smith School as part of its Special Report on the Responsible Business Awards, and Smith School Director Professor Mette Morsing comments on the need for business schools to collaborate with climate scientists, engineers, geographers, chemists, anthropologists, and others to tackle the world's most urgent challenges. 

As President Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement for the second time, Professor Sam Fankhauser warned that the U.K. will now face an “face an emboldened opposition towards net zero."

Ben Caldecott, Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, comments on the exodus of Wall Street’s biggest firms from prominent climate groups.

Injy Johnstone comments on domestic energy security and the benefits of freeing households from reliance on gas. 

AXA XL has provided research funding to the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) in partnership with the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the University of Oxford for an 18-month project aimed at understanding the private sector's approach to achieving net zero emissions in developing countries. 

Dr Laurence Wainwright, Director of our MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment, told Business Because that students must learn to thrive in increasingly turbulent, uncertain, novel, and ambiguous times.

Oxford Smith School Head of Executive Education Giovani Palafox-Alcantar explores the divide between companies that are acting on their climate commitments, and those that are only paying lip-service to sustainability. "The line between the two lies in authenticity and action... In an era when stakeholders demand accountability, only heroes will thrive," he said.