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Cleaner, safer and more prosperous

Energy supply is responsible for over half of greenhouse gas emissions globally. To mitigate climate change, the world must rapidly move away from fossil fuels. Investment in clean energy has the potential to make the world a cleaner, safer and more prosperous place, but many challenges remain.

From community-based off-grid renewable energy, to redirecting international financial flows, Smith School researchers work to identify key levers for change at the cutting edge of the global energy transition.

Energy & finance

Energy-related projects at OSFG

Oxford Sustainable Finance Group (OSFG) projects with an energy-related component include work on stranded assets, the value of AI and new data science, and the need for analytics to quantify climate risk. 

IN THE NEWS

Nigeria faces a cooling crisis

This article in the New York Times references recent research from the Oxford Sustainable Cooling programme, which found that Nigeria will be among the top 5 countries in the world more affected in terms of absolute increase in temperature as the world moves from 1.5 to 2 degrees of global warming. 

Past projects