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 2026
Report
Oxford Martin Principles for Climate-Conscious Investment - Second Edition
Alice Evatt ,  Stuart Jenkins ,  Myles Allen ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Charlotte Dyvik Henke ,  Alan Haywood ,  Helena Fazeli ,  Tom Nelson
Mar 2026
Policy Briefing
Feb 2026
INET Oxford Working Paper
No. 2026-06 - The Convexity of Hurricane Damages
François Cohen ,  Luis Sarmiento ,  Yannik Stuka
Feb 2026
Policy Briefing
How to invigorate and complete the fossil fuel transition
Sam Fankhauser ,  Myles Allen ,  Johanna Arlinghaus ,  Kaya Axelsson ,  Mirte Boot ,  Aoife Brophy ,  Ben Caldecott ,  Emily Cox ,  Alice Evatt ,  Siyu Feng ,  Benjamin Franta ,  Steven Fries ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Conor Hickey ,  Stuart Jenkins ,  Injy Johnstone ,  Radhika Khosla ,  Javier Lezaun ,  Sam Loni ,  Alexis McGivern ,  Jessica Omukuti ,  Stephen M. Smith ,  Sugandha Srivastav ,  Joseph Stemmler ,  Ingrid Sundvor ,  Thom Wetzer
Jan 2026
Policy Briefing
Submission to Inquiry on International Climate Policy
Selam Kidane Abebe ,  Myles Allen ,  Matilda Becker ,  Cassandra Etter-Wenzel ,  Rosalind Chaston ,  Gabrielle Giner ,  Stuart Jenkins ,  Injy Johnstone ,  Stephanie Loo ,  Alexis McGivern ,  Nadia Schroeder ,  Anupama Sen ,  Ingrid Sundvor
Dec 2025
Journal
Quantifying the health-care burden of temperature in the National Health Service in England: an economic analysis of resource use and costs
in The Lancet Planetary Health
Patrick Fahr ,  François Cohen ,  Jessica Schiff ,  Anant Jani ,  Mateo Petel ,  Malcolm McCulloch ,  Radhika Khosla ,  Rafael Perera-Salazar
Nov 2025
Report
The economic benefits of renewable energy and how to share them
Sam Fankhauser ,  Lorenzo Agnelli ,  Maeve Collins Tobin ,  Fatima Khushnud ,  Hannah Luscombe ,  Jessica Omukuti ,  Emilien Ravigné ,  Sugandha Srivastav ,  Mathias Weidinger
Nov 2025
Report
Oxford Climate Policy Monitor 2025 Annual Review
Emma Lecavalier ,  Bhavya Gupta ,  Thomas Hale ,  Thom Wetzer ,  Shirley Lukin ,  Katharina Neumann ,  Nora Zurche
Nov 2025
Policy Briefing
Geological Net Zero and responsibility for the protection of land and ocean carbon sinks
Myles Allen ,  Stuart Jenkins ,  Glen P. Peters ,  Pierre Friedlingstein
Oct 2025
Journal
Balancing simplicity and complexity through corporate emissions benchmarking
in Nature Climate Change
Saphira Rekker ,  Kaya Axelsson ,  Anders Bjørn ,  Chris Greig ,  Richard Heede ,  Matthew J. Hornsey ,  Jacquelyn E. Humphrey ,  Matthew Ives ,  David Kampmann ,  Mark Roelfsema ,  Adrien Rose ,  Sue-Lyn Stubbs ,  Belinda Wade
Oct 2025
Journal
Carbon storage portfolios for the transition to net zero
in Joule
Conor Hickey ,  Stuart Jenkins ,  Myles Allen
Oct 2025
Blog
Americans are adapting to a warmer world — trading winter heat for summer cooling
François Cohen ,  Matthieu Glachant ,  Magnus Söderberg
Sept 2025
Journal
Sept 2025
Journal
Escape from the Valley of Death: The Case for a Geological Storage Mandate in Australia
in OGEL Energy Law Journal
Alice Evatt ,  Peta Ashworth ,  Stuart Jenkins ,  Henry Adams ,  Alana Hollestelle ,  Stefan Trück ,  Tom Kettlety ,  Liam Wagner ,  Mirte Boot ,  Ingrid Sundvor ,  Myles Allen
Aug 2025
Journal
The revised oxford principles for net zero aligned carbon offsetting
in Environmental Research Letters
Injy Johnstone ,  Myles Allen ,  Kaya Axelsson ,  Ben Caldecott ,  Nick Eyre ,  Samuel Fankhauser ,  Thomas Hale ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Conor Hickey ,  Stuart Jenkins ,  Radhika Khosla ,  Stephen Lezak ,  Alison Smith ,  Stephen M. Smith ,  Audrey Wagner
Jul 2025
Journal
How to design better incentives for carbon capture and storage in the United States
in PNAS
Sheila M. Olmstead ,  Benjamin D. Leibowicz ,  Charles F. Mason ,  Andrew R. Waxman ,  Emily Grubert ,  HR Huber-Rodriguez ,  Joseph Stemmler
Jul 2025
Journal
The autonomous adaptation of US homes to changing temperatures
in Journal of Economic Geography
François Cohen ,  Matthieu Glachant ,  Magnus Söderberg
Jun 2025
Video
Jan 2025
Article
Net zero: Strategy and tactics
Jennifer L. Castle ,  Ebba Mark ,  David F. Hendry ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Felix Pretis
Nov 2024
Journal
Geological Net Zero and the need for disaggregated accounting for carbon sinks
in Nature
Myles R. Allen ,  David J. Frame ,  Pierre Friedlingstein ,  Nathan P. Gillett ,  Giacomo Grassi ,  Jonathan M. Gregory ,  William Hare ,  Jo House ,  Chris Huntingford ,  Stuart Jenkins ,  Chris D. Jones ,  Reto Knutti ,  Jason A Lowe ,  H. Damon Matthews ,  Malte Meinshausen ,  Nicolai Meinshausen ,  Glen P. Peters ,  Gian-Kasper Plattner ,  Sarah Raper ,  Joeri Rogelj ,  Peter A. Stott ,  Susan Solomon ,  Thomas F. Stocker ,  Andrew J. Weaver ,  Kirsten Zickfeld
Oct 2024
Journal
A 10-point plan to scale up renewable energy in the Global South
in Climate Policy
Sam Fankhauser ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Stephanie Hirmer ,  Tonny Kukeera ,  Dhruv Singh ,  Ingrid Sundvor ,  Philipp A. Trotter ,  Pu Yang
Sept 2024
Policy Briefing
Geologically Balanced Fuels: a net zero goal for Low-Carbon Aviation Fuels?
Stuart Jenkins ,  Rabab Mehnaz ,  Tom Kettlety ,  Emily Cox ,  Myles Allen
Jun 2024
Journal
May 2024
INET Oxford 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
Feb 2024
Report
Oxford Principles for Net Zero Aligned Carbon Offsetting (revised 2024)
Kaya Axelsson ,  Audrey Wagner ,  Injy Johnstone ,  Myles Allen ,  Ben Caldecott ,  Nick Eyre ,  Sam Fankhauser ,  Thomas Hale ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Conor Hickey ,  Radhika Khosla ,  Stephen Lezak ,  Eli Mitchell-Larson ,  Yadvinder Malhi ,  Nathalie Seddon ,  Alison Smith ,  Stephen M. Smith
Dec 2023
Report
Rolling out renewables in the Global South: A developer perspective
Sam Fankhauser ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Stephanie Hirmer ,  Tonny Kukeera ,  Dhruv Singh ,  Ingrid Sundvor ,  Philipp A. Trotter ,  Pu Yang
Nov 2023
Journal
Legal limits to the use of CO2 removal
in Science
Rupert Stuart-Smith ,  Lavanya Rajamani ,  Joeri Rogelj ,  Thom Wetzer
Jun 2023
Journal
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
in Earth System Science Data
Piers M. Forster ,  Christopher J. Smith ,  Tristram Walsh ,  William F. Lamb ,  Robin Lamboll ,  Mathias Hauser ,  Aurélien Ribes ,  Debbie Rosen ,  Nathan Gillett ,  Matthew D. Palmer ,  Joeri Rogelj ,  Karina von Schuckmann ,  Sonia I. Seneviratne ,  Blair Trewin ,  Xuebin Zhang ,  Myles Allen ,  Robbie Andrew ,  Arlene Birt ,  Alex Borger ,  Tim Boyer ,  Jiddu A. Broersma ,  Lijing Cheng ,  Frank Dentener ,  Pierre Friedlingstein ,  José M. Gutiérrez ,  Johannes Gütschow ,  Bradley Hall ,  Masayoshi Ishii ,  Stuart Jenkins ,  Xin Lan ,  June-Yi Lee ,  Colin Morice ,  Christopher Kadow ,  John Kennedy ,  Rachel Killick ,  Jan C. Minx ,  Vaishali Naik ,  Glen P. Peters ,  Anna Pirani ,  Julia Pongratz ,  Carl-Friedrich Schleussner ,  Sophie Szopa ,  Peter Thorne ,  Robert Rohde ,  Maisa Rojas Corradi ,  Dominik Schumacher ,  Russell Vose ,  Kirsten Zickfeld ,  Valérie Masson-Delmotte ,  Panmao Zhai
Jun 2023
Blog
Apr 2023
Conference Paper
Jan 2023
Journal
A review of commercialisation mechanisms for carbon dioxide removal
in Frontiers in Climate
Conor Hickey ,  Samuel Fankhauser ,  Stephen M. Smith ,  Myles Allen
Jan 2023
Journal
Tonga eruption increases chance of temporary surface temperature anomaly above 1.5 °C
in Nature Climate Change
Stuart Jenkins ,  Chris Smith ,  Myles Allen ,  Roy Grainger
Jan 2023
Journal
Extended producer responsibility for fossil fuels
in Environmental Research Letters
Stuart Jenkins ,  Margriet Kuijper ,  Hugh Helferty ,  Cécile Girardin ,  Myles Allen
Dec 2022
Paper
Green Pills: Making Corporate Climate Commitments Credible
John Armour ,  Luca Enriques ,  Thom Wetzer
Oct 2022
Journal
Africa needs context-relevant evidence to shape its clean energy future
in Nature Energy
Yacob Mulugetta ,  Youba Sokona ,  Philipp A. Trotter ,  Samuel Fankhauser ,  Jessica Omukuti ,  Lucas Somavilla Croxatto ,  Bjarne Steffen ,  Meron Tesfamichael ,  Edo Abraham ,  Jean-Paul Adam ,  Lawrence Agbemabiese ,  Churchill Agutu ,  Mekalia Paulos Aklilu ,  Olakunle Alao ,  Bothwell Batidzirai ,  Getachew Bekele ,  Anteneh G. Dagnachew ,  Ogunlade Davidson ,  Fatima Denton ,  E. Ogheneruona Diemuodeke ,  Florian Egli ,  Gebrekidan Gebresilassie Eshetu ,  Mulualem Gebreslassie ,  Mamadou Goundiam ,  Haruna Kachalla Gujba ,  Yohannes Hailu ,  Adam D. Hawkes ,  Stephanie Hirmer ,  Helen Hoka ,  Mark Howells ,  Abdulrasheed Isah ,  Daniel Kammen ,  Francis Kemausuor ,  Ismail Khennas ,  Wikus Kruger ,  Ifeoma Malo ,  Linus Mofor ,  Minette Nago ,  Destenie Nock ,  Chukwumerije Okereke ,  S. Nadia Ouedraogo ,  Benedict Probst ,  Maria Schmidt ,  Tobias S. Schmidt ,  Carlos Shenga ,  Mohamed Sokona ,  Jan Christoph Steckel ,  Sebastian Sterl ,  Bernard Tembo ,  Julia Tomei ,  Peter Twesigye ,  Jim Watson ,  Harald Winkler ,  Abdulmutalib Yussuff
Sept 2022
Journal
Prosets: a new financing instrument to deliver a durable net zero transition
in Climatic Change
Eli Mitchell-Larson ,  Myles Allen
Aug 2022
Journal
Net Zero: Science, Origins, and Implications
in Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Myles R. Allen ,  Pierre Friedlingstein ,  Cécile Girardin ,  Stuart Jenkins ,  Yadvinder Malhi ,  Eli Mitchell-Larson ,  Glen P. Peters ,  Lavanya Rajamani
Jan 2022
Journal
Indicate separate contributions of long-lived and short-lived greenhouse gases in emission targets
in Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Myles R. Allen ,  Glen P. Peters ,  Keith P. Shine ,  Christian Azar ,  Paul Balcombe ,  Olivier Boucher ,  Michelle Cain ,  Philippe Ciais ,  William Collins ,  Piers M. Forster ,  Dave J. Frame ,  Pierre Friedlingstein ,  Claire Fyson ,  Thomas Gasser ,  Bill Hare ,  Stuart Jenkins ,  Steven P. Hamburg ,  Daniel J. A. Johansson ,  John Lynch ,  Adrian Macey ,  Johannes Morfeldt ,  Alexander Nauels ,  Ilissa Ocko ,  Michael Oppenheimer ,  Stephen W. Pacala ,  Raymond Pierrehumbert ,  Joeri Rogelj ,  Michiel Schaeffer ,  Carl F. Schleussner ,  Drew Shindell ,  Ragnhild B. Skeie ,  Stephen M. Smith ,  Katsumasa Tanaka
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
Dec 2021
Journal
Methane and the Paris Agreement temperature goals
in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
Michelle Cain ,  Stuart Jenkins ,  Myles R. Allen ,  John Lynch ,  David J. Frame ,  Adrian H. Macey ,  Glen P. Peters
Nov 2021
Journal
Forecast-based attribution of a winter heatwave within the limit of predictability
in PNAS
Nicholas J. Leach ,  Antje Weisheimer ,  Myles R. Allen ,  Tim Palmer
Nov 2021
Journal
What next on net zero?
in One Earth
Sam Fankhauser
Nov 2021
Working Paper
The COVID-19 Crisis and the Road to Recovery : Green or Brown?
Miria Pigato ,  Ryan Rafaty ,  Jonas Kai Kurle
Nov 2021
Paper
Mandatory Corporate Climate Disclosures: Now, but How?
John Armour ,  Luca Enriques ,  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
Oct 2021
Video
Aug 2021
Journal
What next for local government climate emergency declarations? The gap between rhetoric and action
in Climatic Change
Candice Howarth ,  Matthew Lane ,  Sam Fankhauser
Jul 2021
Working Paper
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 Oxford Working Paper
Feb 2021
Journal
Global Lessons from Climate Change Legislation and Litigation
in Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy
Shaikh M.S.U Eskander ,  Sam Fankhauser ,  Joana Setzer
Feb 2021
Journal
Jul 2020
Journal
Building a Social Mandate for Climate Action: Lessons from COVID-19
in Environmental and Resource Economics
Candice Howarth ,  Peter Bryant ,  Adam Corner ,  Sam Fankhauser ,  Andy Gouldson ,  Lorraine Whitmarsh ,  Rebecca Willis