Sponsored Projects

The Centre for Sustainable Business engages in many sponsored projects to help sustainability efforts through winning government funded grants or collaborating with leading organizations.

Open Source Intelligence

Thanks to our partnership with Mettle Capital, we are able to gather open source intelligence by collecting, evaluating and analysing publicly-available information (e.g., news, social dedia, trade journals, etc). Such tools enables us to understand in real time the evolving public sentiments or the dynamic materiality assessment for CSRD reporting for organisations.

Grant Funded Projects

“Leveraging GenAI on unstructured geospatial datasets to develop risk/price benchmark for ‘nature positive’ risk metrics” Innovate-UK Grant: Unlocking nature positive private investments, Sep 2024 – Mar 2025 (Total project costs: £386,163)

- Prof. Onesun Steve Yoo (principal investigator)

ADD-TREES: AI-elevated Decision-support via Digital Twins for Restoring and Enhancing Ecosystem Services (£2,000,000), EPSRC, 2023-2025

—A pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI) research project funded by UKRI to provide innovative technologies that will aid crucial decisions about land use change to enable the UK’s net zero target. AI UK 2024: YouTube Link, https://netzeroplus.ac.uk/project/add-trees/

- Dr. Deyu Ming (co-investigator)

Development and Calibration of a Mixed-Species Model for Enhanced Woodland Creation Support (£160,000), BBSRC, 2024-2025

—A BBSRC-funded project to develop a mixed-species forest growth model to improve the evidence base for informed decisions regarding woodland creation for net-zero.

- Dr. Deyu Ming (co-investigator)

“Using AI Copilot for Fashion Innovation & Sustainability” Innovate-UK Grant: Creative Catalyst 2024, Aug - Oct 2024 (Total project cost: £49,632)

- Prof. Onesun Steve Yoo (advisor)

NetZeroPlus: Sustainable Treescapes Demonstrator and Decision Tools (£4,000,000), BBSRC, 2022-2023

—An UKRI-funded project to support the UK Government’s commitment to achieving ‘net zero’ greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 through woodland expansion. More on: https://netzeroplus.ac.uk/

- Dr. Deyu Ming (co-investigator)

“Using AI and automated analytics to grant Supply Chain superpowers” Innovate-UK Grant: The Sustainable Innovation Fund: round 1 (temporary framework), Oct 2020 – Jun 2021 (Total project cost: £155,847)

- Prof. Onesun Steve Yoo (principal investigator)

Industry Collaborations

ATP Sustainability Report 2024 (link)

Analysis of ATP’s scheduling of Challenger tournaments on tennis players’ travel and carbon footprints

Racing towards a Sustainable Future: A Review of Sustainability Performance of International Racing Circuits (2021, link)

Formula E Tops New Motorsport Sustainability Ranking (2022, link)

Sustainable Circuits Index (SCI link)

Creation of Sustainability Index for Motor Sports

Moving towards a Sustainable Future: a First Serie A Sustainability Index (2nd Edition, link)

Creation of Sustainability Index for Football

Social impact measurement and management

Present a framework for multi-stakeholder decision-making aimed at measuring and managing impact with a systemic approach

Sponsored by the John Ryder Memorial Trust, 3-year research project ending December 2024;

UCL Italian Sustainability SME Observatory

Assess the commitment and performance of Italian SMEs in their journey toward sustainable transformation.