All ECI Projects

BIO-RED helped to improve understanding of which Brazilian forest and savanna are resisting climate extremes, the extent to which destruction is reversible, and the vulnerabilities of intact and modified vegetation to climate extremes.

Our work examined the political ecology of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), and how this shaped FSC outcomes for biodiversity conservation and protection of local and indigenous community rights.

FABLE is a collaborative initiative which aims to develop and test ambitious integrated strategies that can tackle the synergies and trade-offs between agriculture, water, biodiversity, healthy diets and greenhouse gas emissions. 

Based in South Africa, HIASA explores the impact of anthropogenic climate change on droughts and floods, and how local human activity can change the vulnerability of regions. 

We mapped and assessed the natural capital value of the Blenheim Estate to provide metrics for measuring year-on-year performance.

FoodSIVI was an initiative between academia, industry and civil society to create a standard for true cost accounting in order to accelerate food system transformation. 

This project examined resilience to environmental change, including climate change, among poor and vulnerable rural populations in hill zones of Nepal and Myanmar.

A think piece on the concept of sufficiency of energy and energy services.

In the third phase of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), ECI led a theme which explored challenges in energy decision-making, including governance, actor decision-making and systemic interactions.

This UKERC programme explored the complexity of decisions required in developing energy systems, focused on governance and the main challenges at system level, challenges in understanding actor decision-making, and systemic interactions. 

Academics from the Universities of Oxford, Harvard and Columbia consulted with the scientific and investment communities together with fossil fuel industry stakeholders to address safe fossil fuel investment.

This research initiative focuses on the future of small-scale agriculture in the global food system. Combining insight from leading global expertise with strategic dialogue processes in Africa, it deepened understanding and debate about the transformation of small-holder agriculture. 

This project explored how and where energy participation is occurring in the West of England, with a focus on Bristol.

ProdJus examined two supranational governance arrangements for tropical forests which aimed to transform the wood products trade between Europe and other world regions: FSC and FLEGT.

The GREEN-WIN project created an international, transdisciplinary research collaboration to understand the links between climate action and sustainability, and overcoming barriers through win-win strategies. 

The Zero Hunger – Zero Emissions Project set out to explore how societies can engage in difficult yet inclusive debates around achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and 13 (Climate Action).

A project to co-produce innovative and effective policy strategies and measures in key social, economic, and environmental sectors based on an improved quantification and assessment of the cross-sectoral impacts and vulnerabilities associated with high-end scenarios.

TRANSMANGO focuses on the vulnerability and resilience of European food systems in the context of socio-economic, behavioural, technological, institutional and agro-ecological change, and aimed to enhance understanding of the new challenges and opportunities that the food sector will face in the future.

SUSFANS built a conceptual framework, evidence base and analytical tools to underpin EU-wide food policies on consumer diet and the implications for nutrition and public health. It also explored the competitiveness of EU agri-food sectors, and global food and nutrition security.