Sustainable Finance
Our Climate Finance solutions focus on the translation and practical application of Climate and Environmental science to improve the resilience and growth prospects of the Financial Services (FS) industry.
FS partners can draw upon the wealth of world-leading academic expertise and industry experience within the Global Systems Institute, and across the entire University, to support their efforts in responding to the Climate Emergency. Dr Jean-Francois Mercure’s work on stranded fossil fuel assets is an example of our highly influential research.
Examples of collaboration outputs, include:
- Creating or enhancing ESG/Sustainability policy and strategy;
- Integrating physical and transition risk into risk management and asset allocation decisions;
- Developing bespoke analytics applications and new ESG/Sustainability (Impact) financial products;
- Delivering improved ESG/Sustainability internal reporting and external disclosures;
- Receiving bespoke climate change research content.
Please contact Jack Oliver to discuss opportunities in this area. He is contactable Tuesday-Friday on 07453323375.
Addressing the New Denialism
Addressing the New Denialism' is a research and public engagement project backed by the Open Society Foundations that aims to expose the gap between current investment in climate finance and the projected costs of climate change (and importantly, where and on whom those costs fall) and to inform policy on how to adequately resource transition in a manner that supports the advancement of racial equity.
Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition
This £4.8M project on the Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition, funded by the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) aims to transform the way science, economics and scholarship interacts with our way of informing and assessing the costs and benefits of important strategic innovation decisions in driving a sustainability transition, in the UK, the EU and in the major emerging economies of Brazil, China and India. It will promote and develop methods of policy analysis based on an evolutionary understanding of innovation, technology and economic change. Can we systematically identify the risks and opportunities that are inherent in a system transition? Can we effectively predict the deep social and economic implications on society that such a radical transformation will have?
In close cooperation with the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth office and overseas UK embassies and BEIS, this project will directly engage policy-makers worldwide to co-create new and effective science-policy bridges to close the gap between ambition and policy strategy in major economies worldwide. This 3 year project is led by Jean-Francois Mercure at the Global Systems Institute of the University of Exeter, and involves a consortium of 16 institutions worldwide, including Cambridge, Oxford, UCL and the World Resources Institute.
SWEEP
The South West Partnership for Environment & Economic Prosperity (SWEEP) is a new initiative that will help deliver economic and community benefits to the South West, whilst also protecting and enhancing the area's natural resources. The South West Partnership for Environment & Economic Prosperity (SWEEP) is a new initiative that will help deliver economic and community benefits to the South West, whilst also protecting and enhancing the area's natural resources.
