The next University of Oxford Sustainable Finance Summit is taking place on Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th July 2025. Registration is now open! Find out more here: sustainablefinance.ox.ac.uk/summit/ Oxford Smith School Oxford Sustainable Finance Group

"State Street loses £28bn of assets to Amundi and Invesco over ESG goals. US asset manager previously managed all of The People’s Pension’s £33bn in assets" ft.com/content/541c71…

Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance to ‘advance work’ on financing CO2 removal responsible-investor.com/net-zero-asset… via SecondariesInvestor

Just Stop Oil’s tactics may have made headlines, but they also made climate action less popular. Millions were alienated. Opposition hardened. Strategic failure that they have dressed up as success. bbc.com/news/articles/…

New satellite will see through clouds to 'weigh' Earth's forests bbc.com/news/articles/…

UK preparations for flooding and extreme weather ‘inadequate’ ft.com/content/9af67d…

Climate impacts will worsen - it is a question of whether they are terrible, really bad or just bad. It is a no brainer to scale up investment in adaptation. This will save money and spur economic activity. Climate resilience is a competitive advantage. theccc.org.uk/2025/04/30/the…

BoE tells banks and insurers to fix climate risk ‘gaps’ on.ft.com/3EQn9Cv

European and UK pension funds drive transatlantic split on sustainable investing on.ft.com/4k5C4bu

Global Banks Increase Fossil-Fuel Funding - WSJ wsj.com/articles/globa…

How the next financial crisis starts ⁦Pilita Clark⁩ ⁦Financial Times⁩ on.ft.com/46dSz0R

Heat deaths in England could rise 50-fold in next half-century, study warns via Financial Times on.ft.com/44HuL3c

Extreme weather is the UK's new normal, says Met Office bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Excited to welcome participants to our 3rd University of Oxford Sustainable Finance Summit this week. Theme is Reinvention & Renewal. Progress is not linear or assured. Our task is to confront realities head-on and identify practical pathways that make progress. sustainablefinance.ox.ac.uk/summit/

Extreme weather drives food price surges across the globe on.ft.com/4lDrSYl

We mapped all 117,116 of England’s farms – here’s why that matters for transition finance and net zero smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/we-mapped…

Delighted to be confirmed as an IPCC Coordinating Lead Author for the Finance Chapter of AR7 WGIII. Looking forward to working as part of the IPCC and with members of the wider climate finance community who will contribute over the next few years ipcc.ch/assessment-rep…

Yet more inflation statistics show that the UK is more vulnerable to the drivers of inflation than peer economies. This report, from a project I chaired at Onward, had some excellent supply side proposals to fix the problem: ukonward.com/reports/target…