Our focus is on addressing climate change, one of the biggest threats facing the planet. We have identified some priority areas for our work, grouped into broad research themes.
What are we working on?
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Meet Felix Creutzig, Bennett Chair and Professor of Innovation & Policy Acceleration introducing two of our strategic research themes: Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability and Urban Sustainability.
Climate interventions
Developing climate policies and technologies targeting behaviour, technology, or society to achieve net-zero energy and climate targets. Includes household consumption and behavioural decisions in transport, food, shelter and decarbonisation in production and manufacturing processes.
Urban sustainability
Empowering municipal scale and sub-national decision makers with the metrics and tools to coordinate investment and growth strategies for sustainable and resilient urban growth.
Energy, equity and justice
Policies and actions that enable a global transition towards energy democracy, equity, and accountability between groups, geographies, species and future generations, with a movement from “this is a problem” towards equitable solutions.
Artificial intelligence (AI) for sustainability
Examining the role and effectiveness of AI technologies for adaptation, mitigation and reversal of climate change and human survival. We explore AI as an enabling force, a systemic force and an accelerating force. We also practically advance the role of AI as a technology.
Investment
and finance
Arming central banks, finance ministries, investors, funders and the media with innovative tools to identify, price, and manage nature-related financial risk.
Planetary wealth
Empowering governments, companies, and organisations to develop and use wealth accounts to improve decision-making.
