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Southern Partnership Fund: Building Bankable Pipelines with Lloyds Financials, Zambia
Dr Alex Money and George Carew-Jones from CCG and Oxford Smith School to discuss the Southern Partnership Fund project “Building Pipelines of Bankable Climate-Compatible Growth Projects in Zambia.”
"This is a young aspirant population that will grow from 20 million to 40 million by 2050. Zambia is strategically and geopolitically located in an important place, and it has a very big critical resource endowment. The challenge is translating that into inclusive, sustainable, equitable growth. And this requires capital which is what CCG’s mission is largely about," said Dr Money.
Oil price shock: Professor Cameron Hepburn comments
Cameron Hepburn, Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics at the Oxford Smith School, comments on the ongoing oil price shock and its ramifications for UK households and the clean energy transition.
Women Fill Business School Classrooms. So Why Do Men Still Run Most Of Them?
Poets and Quants interviews Mette Morsing about women in education leadership, drawing on her experiences as Smith School Director and Interim Dean at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
United Nations and Oxford University launch new programme for leadership in the green economy
The executive training programme, Future-proofing Business and the Economy, is designed to equip senior leaders with the insights, tools, and confidence to navigate accelerating global change and the green transition.
Extreme heat forecasts suggest bigger economic impact in developing world
Fulvia Marotta comments on the implications of new Oxford Smith School research for the global economy. “These projections are really striking and will add extra pressure to already fragile economies as the demand for energy will probably grow faster than infrastructure capacity. If that gap persists, it could generate sustained inflationary pressures,” she said.
India’s 2026 Budget: How well does India balance its decarbonisation strategy with climate adaptation needs?
Alongside increasingly fragmented global trade, India is also confronting something more immediate: the growing economic costs of climate change at home, writes MSc student and lawyer Ashima Gulati.
Time for professional services to phase out fossil fuel clients
Law firms, consultants and advertisers play a decisive role in shaping the economy’s direction. Their support for oil and gas expansion must end, write Clarissa Salmon and Alexis McGivern in FT Sustainable Views.
Do the AR7 results mark the end of growing pains in the UK's utility-scale renewables market?
Yesterday, the Government published the results of its seventh Contracts for Difference allocation round for renewable energy projects (CfD AR7). These allocation rounds are competitive auctions in which energy companies bid for long‑term contracts that guarantee a fixed “strike price” for the electricity they generate.
Can carbon capture clean India's air?
India Today's explainer article on carbon capture features comment from Dr Sugandha Srivastav on whether the technology can help alleviate India's air pollution problems. “Fixing the air pollution problem requires implementing known solutions rather than innovations,” she said.
Pathways to successful conservation management in oil palm landscapes
A new study from researchers at the University of Oxford and University of York has revealed key challenges and solutions for protecting biodiversity within oil palm landscapes. The study was carried out under the SEnSOR programme, coordinated by Dr Jennifer Lucey from the University of Oxford.
Conservation programs must embrace causal evidence when evaluating impact
Tanya O'Garra, Senior Research Associate at the Oxford Smith School, writes in Monga Bay on the need for causal evidence to understand what really works in conservation programmes. "Most of us are familiar with the refrain that “correlation is not causation,” yet correlation remains seductive simply because it’s easier to observe that two things happen together, than to prove that one caused the other. We may observe that forests inside protected boundaries remain standing while surrounding forests disappear. But without ruling out alternative explanations — in this case, that remoteness, not protection, preserved those forests — we risk misinterpreting what drives conservation outcomes," she says.
Excessive reliance on CDR could breach legal guardrails and jeopardise net zero, warn Oxford law experts
A new interdisciplinary study led by University of Oxford researchers examines the international legal framework governing states’ reliance on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in meeting climate targets – and identifies a series of legal ‘guardrails’ designed to ensure that such reliance does not undermine efforts to limit global warming.