9 June 2023
The growing network of student Green Officers has once again delivered an exceptional Cambridge Green Week - Easter Term 2023 - with an impressive range of 18 events and 5 Green Formal Hall dinners which saw around a thousand students, staff, academics and local residents meet-up, discuss and act for the climate and environment.
9 May 2023
Students asked to represent Cambridge Zero took part in lighting up the Cambridge University Botanic Garden’s Black Pine – Pinus nigra – for the BBC's Lighting Up the Nation spectacular light sequence during the King’s Coronation Concert celebrations on Sunday.
5 May 2023
Cambridge Zero congratulates King Charles III on his Coronation and welcomes the new King Charles III Professorship – launched by Trinity College in recognition of His Majesty’s lifelong interest in the environment.
24 April 2023
Cambridge Zero Director Professor Emily Shuckburgh held two assemblies for children from reception to year six at the University of Cambridge Primary School for Earth Day. Nearly 600 students learned how climate change is melting the ice in Antarctica, threatening the lives of penguins and other polar creatures, and causing a rise in sea levels over a timeline that runs from England's King Charles II in the 18th century to today’s monarch Charles III.
21 April 2023
Deadly heatwaves fuelled by climate change in 2022 made almost 90 percent of Indians more vulnerable to public health issues, food shortages and increased risks of death, a new study from researchers at the University of Cambridge - led by Cambridge Zero Fellow Dr Ramit Debnath - reported in the PLOS Climate journal.
21 April 2023
We are excited to celebrate the winners of our Earth Day Photography and Poetry Competition! A big thanks to our judges, Ewan Campbell, Dr Lisa Mullen and Domininkas Zalys. A special congratulations to our photography winner, Millie May, and our poetry winner, Alessandra Rey, and to all of our runners up.
3 April 2023
In celebration of this year’s Earth Day (22 April), Cambridge Zero are running a Photography and Poetry Competition for all students at the University of Cambridge.
28 March 2023
A letter initiated by Cambridge Zero Director Professor Emily Shuckburgh tells the Prime Minister that the latest global report on climate change demonstrates now is the time to channel all our efforts into renewable energy: “Last Monday the IPCC made it clear that immediate action is required to avert a climate catastrophe. Now is the time to be investing in the technologies of the future, not the past.”
20 March 2023
Dr Ramit Debnath, Cambridge Zero Fellow, led an interdisciplinary team of political scientists, engineers, and justice theorists to investigate how online conspiracy theories are having an impact on the funding for research into new climate technologies like solar geoengineering, which could help lessen the effects of climate change. Read more about the study here.
