By drawing on and leveraging the most innovative research across the collegiate University, Cambridge Zero is now tackling the most pressing intellectual and technical challenges in transitioning to a climate-resilient zero-carbon future.
Research Themes
Research Centres
We've also been involved in launching a number of innovative new research centres recently including:
Centre for Landscape Regeneration
Institute of Computing for Climate Science
Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits
Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge
Postgraduate Academy
Cambridge Zero has recently launched a new Postgraduate Academy, which will bring together postgraduate students from across all disciplines at the University of Cambridge who are working on, or have a research interest in, climate change and net-zero.
The Academy is open to postgraduates of any discipline, providing a space to connect, discuss, and collaborate. It will host a year-round calendar of events including opportunities to get involved with Cambridge Zero activities, workshops and personal development programmes to develop research and communications skills, as well as socials, presentations and networking events.
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The Cambridge Zero Postgraduate Academy is hosting its inaugural Student Summer Symposium on Tuesday 7th June. The symposium will showcase new research in Climate Change and related fields being undertaken by postgraduate students at the university.
We are currently welcoming applications for presentations and posters for the symposium from current postgraduate students across all fields, disciplines and subject areas. If your work is related to the climate crisis, we want to hear from you!
Current Projects
Monitoring energy efficiency of buildings using thermal infrared space telescopes
Cambridge Zero is working with Prof Ian Parry from the Institute of Astronomy and Dr Ronita Bardhan from the Department of Architecture on this ambitious project. The University of Cambridge was awarded a share of over £7 million in funding meant to put the UK at the forefront of the latest advances in space innovation.
Learn more about this project here: Cambridge Research
Climate Risk project with UK Universities Climate Network (UUCN)
Cambridge Zero is a founding member of the UUCN, formerly known as the COP26 Universities Network. This project involves Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Luke Kemp (CSER) and Dr Erik Mackie leading on a series of outputs including briefing papers on Tipping Points and Cascading Risks, a Toolkit on Climate Risk Communication, as well as a series of podcasts. Listen to the first episode, with more to follow soon.
We are also working on a further report on Climate Risk Decision-making as part of this project.
University Research
Cambridge Zero connects research groups and institutes across the University, joining up their research and policy expertise. This includes* researchers and projects within:
* not all of the research conducted by these groups is relevant to Cambridge Zero.