Project Leader / Primary Investigator

Professor Myles Allen


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. Leading academics from across the University’s disciplines, including Geography, Physics, Economics, Biology, Law and Earth Sciences, have come together to focus on the long-term questions necessary to achieve equitable, science-based solutions.

Oxford Net Zero aims to transform policies and practices at multiple scales to co-achieve net zero emissions and sustainable development. We will do this through the establishment of the world’s leading translational research initiative providing an integrated view of the scientific, ecological, economic and social challenges through sustained engagement with business, civil society and national and international policy makers.


Recent Publications

Jun 2024
Journal
May 2024
INET Working Paper
No. 2023-17 - The Economics of Coal Phaseouts
Sugandha Srivastav ,  Michael Zaehringer
Apr 2024
Journal
Turning a groundswell of climate action into ground rules for net zero
in Nature Climate Change
Thomas Hale ,  Thom Wetzer ,  Selam Kidane Abebe ,  Myles Allen ,  Amir Amel-Zadeh ,  John Armour ,  Kaya Axelsson ,  Ben Caldecott ,  Lucilla Dias ,  Sam Fankhauser ,  Benjamin Franta ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Kennedy Mbeva ,  Lavanya Rajamani ,  Steve Smith ,  Rupert Stuart-Smith
Dec 2021
Journal
The meaning of net zero and how to get it right
in Nature Climate Change
Sam Fankhauser ,  Stephen M. Smith ,  Myles Allen ,  Kaya Axelsson ,  Thomas Hale ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  J. Michael Kendall ,  Radhika Khosla ,  Javier Lezaun ,  Eli Mitchell-Larson ,  Michael Obersteiner ,  Lavanya Rajamani ,  Rosalind Rickaby ,  Nathalie Seddon ,  Thom Wetzer
Oct 2021
Journal
A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units
in Nature
Lucas Kruitwagen ,  K. T. Story ,  J. Friedrich ,  L. Byers ,  S. Skillman ,  Cameron Hepburn
Jun 2021
Journal
Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation
in Nature Climate Change
Rupert Stuart-Smith ,  Friederike E. L. Otto ,  Aisha I. Saad ,  Gaia Lisi ,  Petra Minnerop ,  Kristian Cedervall Lauta ,  Kristin van Zwieten ,  Thom Wetzer
Mar 2021
INET Working Paper