The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
The feasibility of biofuels, the economics of emissions cuts and the profit-making openings for low-carbon firms are among innovative research projects at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
The School's aim is to find ways of cutting fossil fuel use worldwide without impeding any country’s economic growth, and to foster sustainable living so that all of us enjoy health and lifestyle advances without doing any more damage to the planet.
Led by Professor Sir David King, the School will be a unique catalyst for innovative science, progressive decision making and sustainable economic progress.
Smith School initiatives are based in a network of research centres.
The Centre for Climate and Development is promoting sustainable development in poorer countries.
The Centre for Low-Carbon Mobility is improving transport for us and our goods.
The Centre for Catastrophe Risk Management deals with the risk and cost of disasters.
We are establishing a centre for environmental economics, a centre facilitating the low-carbon switch for business and a centre for climate science and regulation.
Core to our centers’ network will be an Enterprise and Environment Futures programme, in which an international board, led by Lord Browne of Madingley, will oversee horizon-scanning research.
The aim of Futures is to help decision-makers better manage long-term global problems such as tropical deforestation, the over-exploitation of natural resources, carbon trading and biodiversity loss.
More on the Smith School:
http://www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/
