All ECI Projects

Researchers from six European countries worked with clean energy communities to explore how they engage citizens, create value and share learning.

The NBSI aims to understand the potential of nature-based solutions, and to support their sustainable implementation through the application of good evidence from science and practice.

Embedding food resilience in agendas such as climate, planning and health as well as addressing the overlap between income and food access could help London's complex and fragile food system better meet the needs of its growing population.

GEMCLIME examines the drivers of climate change and energy-related risks, the economic impacts of mitigation and adaptation policies, and investigates policy responses to global climate and energy challenges.

Our analysis outlines three distinct pathways to eradicating emissions from the Oxfordshire economy.

Our work helped to consolidate food systems foresight capability in Ghana and Uganda in order to strengthen transformation planning towards more sustainable and resilient food systems.

This programme created a framework for understanding technical, market and policy requirements for integrating renewables across a wide range of scales, resource types and contexts. 

SENTINEL was an interdisciplinary research project which sought to address the challenge of achieving ‘zero hunger’ in sub-Saharan Africa, while reducing inequalities and conserving ecosystems.

Global Food Security Programme (GFS), the UK’s cross government programme on food security research, funded 13 collaborative research projects which produced new evidence and recommendations for policy and practice.

The Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC) created a unique set of simulation models and methodologies to enable long-term cross-sectoral planning of sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems.

M-Benefits created a method for companies to include the multiple benefits of energy efficiency in their investment assessment and decision-making.

iNumber is a four-year research collaboration between India and United Kingdom to help cities reduce their energy demand and improve their electricity and water services.

Our report quantified the UK food system as a foundation for further analyses, drawing together data sources, documents, research articles together with interviews with UK food governance stakeholders.

Eco-metric is an extension of Defra's biodiversity metric which shows how changes in natural capital affect the delivery of wider ecosystem services such as regulation of flooding, erosion, air quality and climate, provision of food and water, and cultural services such as recreation and aesthetic value.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.