Research project
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 (Leeds University Business School) Full team details.
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 UK Green Finance Strategy 2019 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 announced in February 2021. This consortium was led by the University of Oxford in partnership with the University of Bristol, Imperial College London, University of Leeds, University of Reading, Science and Technology Facilities Council, The Alan Turing Institute and the Satellite Applications Catapult.
CGFI’s Director and Principal Investigator was Dr Ben Caldecott and its Executive Director was Matt Scott, both based at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group 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.
Visit the Centre website for further information about the research, tools and data created.