Climate & the law
The Oxford Sustainable Law programme combines science with the law to address global sustainability challenges. Our cutting-edge research focuses on climate science and the law, systemic lawyering, the transition to net-zero, and climate risk governance.
Climate & enterprise
Future of cooling
The Future of Cooling programme focuses on understanding and shaping sustainable cooling solutions, prioritising passive and less energy-intensive technologies to protect people and prepare countries for extreme heat events.
Sustainable future of commodities & infrastructure
Our programme on the sustainable future of commodities & infrastructure (OxSFOCI) supports the transition of capital-intensive industries such as mining, oil and gas, infrastructure and construction to environmentally sustainable production.
Oxford Net Zero
The Oxford Net Zero initiative draws on the University of Oxford’s world-leading expertise in climate science and policy, addressing the critical issue of how to reach global net-zero in time to halt global warming.
Climate & finance
Multi-disciplinary research from the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group (OSFG) aims to create real change in financial practice and policy, working with a range of special initiatives to tackle global environmental and social challenges.
CROSS-INSTITUTION PROGRAMMES
Oxford Climate Emergency Programme
Our climate emergency programme is aimed at senior executives who recognise their business needs to change in response to the impacts of climate change. Combining expertise from the Smith School and Saïd Business School, the online course provides guidance to help you drive action and transform your business.
Climate & economics
Our economics programme explores the design and implementation of economic policy initiatives that affect enterprise and the environment. We investigate how targeted interventions can help to accelerate the transition to net-zero, and also lead solutions-led research into economically, socially and environmentally scalable greenhouse gas removal options.
External partners
Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative
Examining the legal basis for directors and trustees to consider, manage, and report on climate change-related risk, and the circumstances in which they may be liable for failing to do so.
Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative
CCLI website
Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment
The Alliance was founded in 2017 by a network of global research universities in order to promote rigorous and highly impactful academic research on sustainable finance and investment.
Latest news
Paris 2.0: Climate Leadership Faces Its Oxford Exam
Ad Astra Journal attended the Oxford Smith School World Forum this week and wrote a series of articles on the panels, as well as an interview with attendee Bill Hilf, Board Chair of the Allen Institute for AI.
Heatwaves Are Now Routine – So, How Are We Going To Adapt?
The UK has moved from needing to prepare for the possibility of climate impacts to managing impacts that are already happening. The problem, according to the experts interviewed in this Politics Home article, including Sam Fankhauser, Interim Director of the Oxford Smith School, is the failure to turn plans into measurable action.
Who pays to keep climate standard-setters credible?
Having funded the rise of the bodies that set corporate climate rules, philanthropy must now help keep them honest, writes Alexis McGivern in Alliance magazine. "Funders don’t set the standards, but they can decide whether the organisations writing them have the strength to hold the line for science-led, evidence-based rule-making."