Outputs
In addition to peer-reviewed journal articles, the Smith School team publishes working papers, reports and policy briefs to provide timely public access to results emerging from our research, to promote discussion and to inform debate.
New policy brief by Nick Eyre, which sets out how these opportunities can be systematically unlocked, beginning in the next 5 years.
With a focus on transparency, durability, and innovation, the Oxford Offsetting Principles chart a course for organisations to navigate the evolving landscape of carbon markets and offsetting practices. Key highlights include urgent calls to accelerate emission reductions, close the carbon removal gap, and harness the power of nature-based solutions.
This document should be interpreted and used in line with its purpose and scope to maintain and promote the highest possible climate ambition. This document does not address legal and other obligations relating to climate action.
This paper compares four leading emission pathways for shipping and their underlying technology-policy mixes to identify benchmarks for the assessment of the credibility and feasibility of transition plans in the shipping sector.
We introduce a database to track the evolution of corporate venturing in the alternative proteins sector.
Working Paper No. 23-09
The costs of reaching net zero CO₂ emissions around 2050 are calculated for pathways involving different amounts of carbon capture and storage (CCS). The analysis finds that from 2021 to 2050, taking a low-CCS pathway to net zero emissions could cost US$30 trillion less than taking a high-CCS route – saving approximately a trillion dollars per year.
Working paper 23-08
This report is the first in a series, which thematise the practical nuts-and-bolts considerations which current and future clean energy developers in developing countries face, and how this relates to a just and inclusive transition.
Uncovering a forgotten chapter in solar energy history: in the early 1900s George Cove, a renewable energy inventor was shining a light on alternative energy sources with his revolutionary invention. It harnessed the photovoltaic effect to power small household devices.
Policy brief from the working paper: Britain’s energy demand could be met entirely by wind and solar – both practically and economically.
Working paper developed with Oxford Department of Chemistry, in partnership with Unilever, highlights the ‘hidden’ carbon emissions of cleaning products such as laundry detergents and shampoo. It calls for national strategies for sustainable, bio-carbon feedstocks to open up a pathway to net zero for these products and suggests a portfolio of policy options to ‘clean up cleaning’. [Working Paper No. 23-07]
This paper estimates the practical contributions that wind and solar electricity generation could make to decarbonise the GB domestic electricity system, incorporating recent advances in technology and significant declines in cost. It demonstrates that Great Britain’s practical wind and solar resources are more than sufficient to economically meet total net domestic energy needs. [Working paper 23-02]
New model used to study how temperature and rainfall are changing in different countries. This model showed how much global temperatures have gone up and how each country's temperatures are changing in relation to the global trend, helping to understand which countries are most affected by global warming. [Working paper 23-06]