How do we accelerate a green, resilient and just transition?
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In case you missed it - catch up on our launch workshop session:
The future of #ClimateTech collaboration and systems change
Watch the lightning panel and provocations
Hosted by the Oxford Climate Tech Initiative, in partnership with On Deck Build for Climate, at the Skoll World Forum we held a launch session April 8 with 185 people joining live from all continents. You can also read the recap here on Medium.
Dive into the unresolved questions
In our session, after the lightning panel, we held 16 breakout rooms, with nearly 40 volunteer facilitators and asked participants to share their points of view and perceptions on the Miro here.
Explore the interactive systems map and contribute
Using Kumu maps linked to "virtual post it notes" we crowdsourced responses to the key questions that feeds into a larger research project underway. This documentation is still open- please add your own considerations! Click here to view and join!
Join the Community of Practice on LinkedIn
The OXCTI Community Of Practice is a space for us all to connect, share resources and updates about interesting questions, conversations, events happening in the #ClimateTech space.
Click here to view and join!
OVERVIEW AT A GLANCE
Why this, why now
Significant funding has been allocated towards early-stage climate innovations, with at least US$60 billion going towards startups building some type of decarbonization technology. However, climate-tech is still a nascent sector globally, with key gaps in the depth and nature of funding available to founders as well as lingering structural hurdles for them to navigate as they scale their businesses.
While there is a growing pool of capital that is being allocated to finance climate tech solutions – i.e. asset owners and managers are sitting on vast sums – there are immense visibility gaps surrounding deals (both philanthropic and commercial) for capital providers, as well as other key stakeholders in the climate-tech ecosystem. This gap encompasses both investment opportunities and new partnerships that can have a large impact. The larger, more dire implications of these gaps are that, as climate change’s impact accelerates and worsens, much-needed resources risk being mis-allocated, and negative impact could become intractable.
The academic community is critical to helping to fill this gap. New research, forums for knowledge exchange, and cross-border scholarship collaborations focusing on climate-tech in developing countries are all needed. The OxCT seeks to help overcome information asymmetries, enable new collaborations, and facilitate capacity building for academics, researchers, and other practitioners in the climate-tech space.
Our lines of enquiry
“The cost of low-carbon technology (LCT) is decreasing while investment, trade, and innovation in this sector are on the rise. But the benefits of that progress have largely eluded the world’s poorest countries, which play a minuscule role in low-carbon technology markets as buyers, sellers or innovators—despite being the most vulnerable to extreme weather events, flooding, damage to infrastructure, and habitat loss.”
International Finance Corporation, Technology Transfer and Innovation for Low-Carbon Development, 2020
What we are up to now
Current Initiatives
2022 Development Team
Minahil Amin
Research Colead
Research Assistant, University of Oxford
MBA 2022-2023
Can Uz
Radar Colead
Associate Solutions Partner at Siemens Advanta
Oxford EMBA 2021-2023
Ally Kirk
Collaborator
Senior Analyst and Global Team Lead at ICIS
Oxford EMBA 2021-2023
MPhil Environmental Change and Management
MBA 2021-2022
Bradlee Duncan
Collaborator
Director, Product Management at NetDocuments
Oxford EMBA 2021-2023
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Oxford EMBA 2021-2023
Dr Mohsen Gul
Collaborator
Senior Technical Advisor at Asian Development Bank, UNDP Pakistan, The Green Box
Carolina Douek
Collaborator
Research Assistant, University of Oxford
MBA 2021-2022
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