School of Geography and the Environment

Earthwatch Institute is a diverse community of scientists, educators, students, businesspeople, and resolute explorers who work together to get the fullest benefit from scientific expeditions. In addition to 150 dedicated staff in the United States, England, Australia, and Japan, Earthwatch supports about 60 projects each year and builds networks of hundreds of scientists, students and teachers.

The Earth Trust is based in south Oxfordshire and manages an estate of 300 hectares, including Little Wittenham Nature Reserve and Wittenham Clumps, a conservation farm, a woodland dedicated to forestry research and Project Timescape, the Trust's visitor centre.

The Global Canopy Programme is an alliance of 29 scientific institutions in 19 countries, which lead the world in forest canopy research, education and conservation. Our work programmes all aim to define and explore the range and economic value of forest ecosystem services and to share our findings with decision-makers in Government and finance. Time is not on our side as the conversion of ancient forests proceeds apace worldwide. Policy and positive incentive mechanisms based on sound science must urgently be developed to preserves these vital forest utilities for humanity.

Best Foot Forward is one of Europe's leading sustainability consultancies specialising in ecological and carbon footprinting. The impacts of climate change and need for carbon reductions are becoming increasingly clear, and Best Foot Forward provide a range of tools and services for carbon accounting.

Sylva is a tree and forestry charity. They aim to revive a wood culture by conducting tree research, working with young people and the general public, and by supporting the woodchain. Their Our innovative myForest service revolves around an online web-map of woodlands, products and businesses. It provides an online management planning account for woodland owners.

LandShare is a small but influential not-for-profit organisation established in August 2008 to be a catalyst for change in the way we manage land and its resources. LandShare translates what is known and thought by scientists and decision-makers into practical solutions; frameworks for action that can be adopted as realistic ways of doing business.

OXFAM is a development, relief, and campaigning organisation that works with others to overcome poverty and suffering around the world. Oxfam works with others to overcome poverty and suffering. Oxfam fights poverty in three ways - campaigning for change, development work and emergency response. Nicholas Colloff is the Director of Strategy and Innovation at Oxfam GB tasked with helping improve the impact of Oxfam's long term development programming. He is presently focused on the 'missing middle' of SME financing and on low carbon development including renewables. Prior to his elevation to this new role (to him as well as to Oxfam), he was Oxfam GB's Country Director in Russia where the programme focused domestically on urban livelihoods and access to basic services and internationally on Russia's resumed global role as donor and climate change actor.

Acclimatise specialises in climate change risk management. As a market leading advisory firm, we have a portfolio of tools that enables businesses to adapt to a changing climate. Whether it is reviewing regulatory or government policy, stakeholder positions, or guiding you on the business and financial threats and opportunities that stem from climate change, Acclimatise's network of specialists can bridge the gap between the urgent need to adapt and the business requirements of the corporate and commercial worlds. Acclimatise expertise is far-reaching, providing strategic and project-specific climate change advice to the private, political and public sectors. And Acclimatise is working closely with governments, helping them to develop their adaptation policies. Clients include Barclays, BP, Shell, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the UK Environment Agency.

With over 10 years of experience in the market, EcoSecurities has grown into one of the world's largest developers and suppliers of emission reductions, for both the compliance and voluntary markets.

ERM delivers innovative solutions for leading business and government clients, assisting them in managing their environmental and related risks. Around the world we are working with our clients to develop sustainable solutions to the wide range of environmental and social pressures they face. We are focused on providing the environmental and associated services our clients need to meet these challenges. Key Innovations are largely focused around the widely publicised Climate Change issue which has led us to develop key service offerings including: product lifecycle carbon foot-printing, Carbon due diligence, CO₂ capture and storage, sustainable business, green building/energy efficiency audits, carbon market modelling and carbon strategy advice.

Global Water Intelligence (GWI) is the leader in high-value business information for the water industry.

2Degrees assists businesses progress sustainably and provides a range of unique solutions for both corporate and public sector organizations. These involve the development and active management of networks to support stakeholder engagement, project delivery and innovation challenges - all within the sustainability context of the 2degrees platform.. Through collaboration between private and public organizations, investors, legislative experts and solutions providers, sustainability professionals across the world can gain access to the knowledge and contacts they need to meet the challenges of a changing global business environment.

BiodiversityWorks is a specialist ecosystem asset development and project management business focused on realising economic, environmental and social value within tropical forest landscapes. BiodiversityWorks originates, leverages finance and manages sustainable forestry, agro-forestry and other land-use projects. Balanced financial, environmental and social returns on investment are achieved through commercialising traditional and new ecosystem services and products, according to impact investment principles.

ProForest is an independent organisation working with natural resource management and specialising in practical approaches to sustainability. Our work ranges from international policy development to the practical implementation of requirements on the ground, with a particular focus on turning policy into practice. The Proforest team is international and multilingual and has a broad variety of backgrounds, ranging from industry to academia and NGOs. This allows us to work comfortably in many types of organisations, as well as in a range of cultures. We have in-house knowledge of more than 15 languages, including Mandarin, Hindi, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Proforest was set up in 2000. Our expertise covers all aspects of the natural resources sector, from forestry and agricultural commodities to conservation, supply chain management and responsible investment.

Synergy is an independent international consulting company with offices in Oxford, Johannesburg and Abu Dhabi. We work with businesses operating in challenging environments to help them secure their long-term value by creating positive social outcomes through the way they work. We work with companies, governments and NGOs, focusing on the management of social issues surrounding large-scale commercial projects, particularly in the extractive sector within which we work at all phases of project life from exploration and feasibility assessments right through to project closure. We also work with communities to help design their sustainable development plans. Synergy has experience in over 40 countries.

Climate Outreach Information Network (COIN) is a UK registered charity established in 2004 which dedicates itself to helping people to communicate climate change. One of our current programmes is called 'Breaking the Deadlock: Language and Discourse for Effective Climate Change Communication', which aims to develop, test and promote new forms of language around climate change -including words, phrases, frames or entire narratives - that are optimistic, inspirational and encourage change. There are many potential research opportunities for students of the MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Policy course within the Language and Discourse programme.

Oxford Hub is the focal point for charity and volunteering at Oxford University. If you care about making a difference then Oxford Hub can help you get informed and inspired about the issues that matter. Oxford Hub runs events, conferences, offers training and support to students running social and environmental groups and can put you in touch with loads of amazing opportunities to volunteer abroad and in the local community.

Africa Now supports farmers and small businesses to produce and sell better products. By supporting their own hard work and creativity, Africa Now offers a 'hand-up' rather than a 'hand-out', providing people with a future of opportunity. We assist with finance, training, technology and securing a fair price from buyers

Arborcarb implements tropical forestry projects that develop key ecosystem assets, which provide multiple revenues. Arborcarb's focus is the reforestation of severely degraded forest land using rich mixes of indigenous tree species primarily for the generation of high quality voluntary carbon markets (validated against the Voluntary Carbon Standard) and sustainable timber (certified to the Forest Stewardship Council standard). Other project activities include improving forest management and reducing emissions from deforestation. In addition to the carbon and timber revenues, Arborcarb projects are designed to integrate sustainable non-timber forest products, develop a supply of ecosystem service certificates, and ensure delivery of environmental and social co-benefits (in compliance with the Climate, Community and Biodiversity standards).

Climate Xchange is based in the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University. The Oxfordshire ClimateXChange is a new Climate Change project for Oxfordshire. It's about you, your family, your neighbour, your street, your pub, school, business, church all getting 'fantastically imaginative' about climate change.

The Northmoor Trust is based in South Oxfordshire and manages an estate of 300 hectares, including Little Wittenham Nature Reserve and Wittenham Clumps, a conservation farm, a woodland dedicated to forestry research and Project Timescape, the Trust's visitor centre.

Oxford Climate Policy Oxford Climate Policy was registered in April 2005 for the general purpose of capacity building in the context of the UN climate change negotiations, and is charged, in particular with managing the Oxford Fellowship Programme of the European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI).

Susenco operates in a wide range of sectors, from farming and estates, to industrial and commercial customers, and provides services to help clients reduce future energy prices, their carbon emissions, best use of the resources they have.