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7 November 2022

Freddie highlights the opening ceremony featuring the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and UN Secretary-General, António Guterres. Strong support is shown for Loss & Damage on the agenda, and businesses are recognising the urgent need for change.

7 November 2022

Professor Emily Shuckburgh, Director of Cambridge Zero, explains what she believes COP27 needs to achieve in this article and video.

5 November 2022

Cambridge PhD Candidate in Geography, Friederike (“Freddie”) Hartz, looks ahead to the coming two weeks of COP27 and her live reporting. We invite you to attend the Cambridge Zero event 'COP27 Preview: Where we are and where we need to go with international climate policy' on Monday, 7th November at 18:00 BST at the Selwyn College Auditorium, Cambridge, and online where Freddie will join in live from Egypt.

10 October 2022

The Cambridge Green Week in Easter Term 2022 marked one of the first opportunities for students to meet in person and push forwards on climate engagement and action after the Covid-19 pandemic. The week was led, organised and hosted by the elected student Green Officers from across the Cambridge Colleges.

7 October 2022

Engage for Change is a twelve-week programme for students at the University of Cambridge who want to learn to make change happen, sponsored by Cambridge Zero and the Sustainability Team at the University of Cambridge. Applications for the first cohort will close on 18th October 2022.

23 September 2022

As a current student at the University of Cambridge you have lots of opportunities to learn about and get involved in climate change and sustainability work. Listed below are a range of programmes, opportunities and events available in Michaelmas Term 2022, run by Cambridge Zero and the Sustainability Team. Read on to find out how you can learn more about climate change, take action for positive change and lead sustainability initiatives at the University. This list is non-exhaustive and only summarises the programmes run by these two groups and by College Green Officers, who we collaborate with. There are plenty of other ways to get involved too!

22 September 2022

Ten Principles for Policymaking in The Energy Transition, a pioneering new report co-authored by energy policy experts from the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, sets out how a different approach to policy can empower governments to accelerate innovation, reduce costs and de-risk markets. The report finds that government investment and regulation is key to rapidly bringing down the cost of clean technologies. New principles for policymaking can unlock faster and cheaper technology growth, from green hydrogen to net zero steel, to cut emissions and boost economies.

15 September 2022

The first major study of driving forces behind government funding of energy RD&D – and the public institutions generating it – over the 21st century shows that competition created by China’s rise as a technology superpower led to significant increases in clean energy investment. The study led by University of Cambridge and University of California, Berkeley, and published in the journal Nature Energy, also found that cooperation commitments at a UN climate conference were not just empty words, and did boost 'cleantech' innovation, albeit a long way off levels required to hit net zero or prevent two-degree warming.

19 July 2022

Cambridge Zero is pleased to introduce the Student Societies Climate Fund: a funding call for all student societies and JCR/MCRs at the University of Cambridge to apply for a share of £1000, available termly, to fund climate-related events.

Learn more about the fund details and how to apply here.