All ECI Projects

The Food Systems Transformation Group at the University of Oxford will lead a major new scoping project exploring how the Wellcome Trust can most effectively support action-oriented research on sustainable and healthy food systems across the UK and Europe.

This project develops a UK roadmap for pulses, exploring how they can play a larger role in delivering healthier diets, more resilient farming systems, and wider environmental benefits. 

We work with financial institutions, Central Banks and regulators to develop data, scenarios and tools to map the two-way relationships between nature, the economy and finance.

The GRII project provides the next generation of analytics to model the impacts of climate change across systems and supply chains.

FoSTr provides a country support facility for food systems foresight and scenario analysis. The country-led and multi-actor foresight process aims to assist national food systems transformation.

The Oxford Net Zero initiative draws on the University of Oxford’s world-leading expertise in climate science and policy, addressing the critical issue of how to reach global ‘net zero’ in time to halt global warming.

iDODDLE is investigating if the digitalisation of our daily lives helps or hinders efforts to tackle climate change.

The Foresight4Food Initiative explores how foresight – a key tool for governments, business and civil society to better understand future risks and opportunities – and scenario analysis for the global food system could be improved.

ELEVATE explores the potential of existing and new forms of e-micromobility, identifying the people, places and circumstances where they will be most useful in order to reduce mobility-related energy demand and carbon emissions.

Clean Heat Streets (CHS) aims to install 150 heat pumps into the Rose Hill area of Oxford over a two year period, do so inclusively, fairly and without causing problems on the electricity distribution network.

We develop analytics and evidence to help governments, multi-laterals and investors mobilise finance to advance the sustainable development goals (SDGs).

The WWA initiative is a group of international climate scientists which provides robust assessments on the role of climate change in extreme weather events, quickly but thoroughly.

How do we promote a healthier diet which has a lower environmental impact and also enhances local and national enterprise? By starting with the meal and working backwards through the supply chain to the grower.

Using both both analytics and evidence, we support policy, investment and financial solutions, and help to set the right enabling environment for investment.

GoZero aims to provide a robust evidence base to support the multi-level governance of SME decarbonisation across the four UK nations.

The energy and mobility theme of UKERC Phase 4 projects focuses on where transport decarbonisation efforts are generating acute technological and governance challenges for the energy system, especially at the local level.

CREDS is a multi-institution research centre looking at how reductions in energy use can support the transition to a net-zero society, and move to an energy system that is secure, affordable and sustainable.

By tackling existing weaknesses and lack of capabilities in the current generation of integrated assessment models, the NAVIGATE project provides new insights into how long-term climate goals can translate into short-term policy action.

The LEAP programme aims to understand the health, environmental, social and economic effects of meat and dairy production and consumption to provide evidence and tools for decision-makers to promote healthy and sustainable diets.

The AFN Network+ aims to create plausible pathways, and practical, open science, to achieve net-zero through the agrifood system by 2050.