Foresight, an AI-powered project delivery platform for large-scale infrastructure, announced it has raised $US25 million in Series A funding. “Delays in major projects are not rare events caused by black swans. They are systemic, driven by small, compounding execution failures and predictable human biases in planning and decision-making. My research at Oxford has spent years quantifying this problem," said Dr Atif Ansar, co-founder and Excecutive Chairman at Foresight and Programme Director, Oxford Programme on the Sustainable Future of Capital Intensive Industries at the Oxford Smith School. 

Bloomberg spoke to Oxford Smith School Director Mette Morsing for this report on the global consequences of American academics leaving their country in response to Trump administration policies. 

Caitlin McElroy, Smith School lead for regenerative and circular economy research, joins new multidisciplinary, pan-Oxford initiative OxEARTH (Ensuring equitable Access to sustainable Resources for a Thriving Habitat).

Doyne Farmer and Eric Beinhocker outline the technological and economic forces driving renewable energy globally - and why these will prove unstoppable even in the current political climate. 

New research from Mette Morsing, Smith School Director, explores the 'calling' of corporate sustainability managers to drive change - even when the very system that hires them often stifles social and environmental aspirations.

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.