The Oxford Smith School's Enterprise Brief series responds to a need expressed by businesses for clear, evidence-based research to inform guidelines that deal with environmental risks, grounded in the latest science.

Successful Corporate Approaches to Climate Policy Engagement: This brief provides strong evidence that responsible climate policy engagement remains an important feature of corporate strategy, underpinned by a range of business motivations.

Making corporate climate transitions work: business guidance for implementing just and equitable transition plans: Developed by the Oxford Net Zero Youth Advisory Board, this guidance emphasises procedural justice and highlights how a just transition risk can reduce risks, unlock opportunities, and build public support for climate action. Following the enterprise brief, the authors explored how corporate climate strategies leave out social and political dimensions, highlighting how feminist theory could help close these gaps.

Our research focuses on reducing social inequalities – river water security in urban Asia, climate resilience in Africa and results-based funding for safe drinking water in rural Africa and Asia. We aim to make 10 million poor people in Africa and Asia water secure by 2024, and advance thinking on rural water finance to provide reliable water services for 100 million people by 2030.