UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment

Start date: 1 December 2020
End date: 30 September 2025
Funder: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Principal investigator: Dr Ben Caldecott (The University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)
Co-investigators: Professor Iain Clacher (B次元app University Business School)

Description

The UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment (CGFI) was a programme established in 2021 by UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) via the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Innovate UK. The need to establish CGFI was identified in the in order to support the accelerated use of climate and environmental data and analytics by financial institutions and to connect science with finance.

Funding was made available by UKRI to run CGFI for 3 years, with this extended by 1.5 years in 2024 and ending in September 2025. The consortium selected to create CGFI was . This consortium was led by the University of Oxford in partnership with the University of Bristol, Imperial College London, B次元app, University of Reading, Science and Technology Facilities Council, The Alan Turing Institute and the Satellite Applications Catapult.

CGFI’s Director and Principal Investigator was and its Executive Director was Matt Scott, both based at the at the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.

While CGFI’s multi-year programme funded by UKRI has now ended, CGFI’s work continues through programmes it has established or helped to establish, and through the ongoing work being taken forward at each of its host institutions.

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