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Play your part at COP27 - submit an entry to ActNowFilm2

14 July 2022

We are inviting young people to send in video clips of themselves in conversation with someone from a different generation talking about how climate change is affecting them. These videos will be compiled into ActNowFilm2 and showcased at COP27.

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Emergency Climate MP Briefing

Emergency MP Briefing on Climate Change

11 July 2022

Cambridge Zero Director Prof Emily Shuckburgh joined the UK government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, Prof Stephen Belcher from the Met Office and Prof Gideon Henderson, the chief scientific adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in giving an emergency briefing to parliamentarians, warning of the dangers of the climate crisis and urging them to act.

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Meet Cambridge Climate Change Experts: Interview with Dr Shaun Fitzgerald

8 July 2022

Once a month, we'll be sitting down with one of the experts in our community to talk about what they do, how they got there and what they believe are the greatest challenges and opportunities in solving the climate crisis.

This month, we're talking to Dr Shaun Fitzgerald OBE FREng, Director of the Centre for Climate Repair at the University of Cambridge (CCRC).

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Green Careers Festival

1 March 2022

Cambridge Zero is pleased to be partnering with the University of Cambridge Careers Service on delivering the University’s second Green Careers Fair and first Green Careers Festival. The transition to a climate-resilient, net zero world will require skilled and talented individuals working in all sectors of society from finance and law to education and healthcare. The changes that will be needed both to mitigate the effects of climate change and adapt to life with climate change are wide-ranging and will need innovative thinkers from across disciplines.

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Sun rises over solar panels in the background. In the foreground, text reads: 'the carbon challenge: daily decarbonization. A competition for postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers to submit scalable ideas to decarbonize activities in our everyday lives'. Four logos are at the bottom: Cambridge Zero, Carbon 13, Cambridge Enterprise and Energy IRC.

Carbon Challenge 2022: Daily Decarbonisation!

20 January 2022

Are you a problem solver who thrives on challenge? Do you want to take action on climate change? The Cambridge Carbon Challenge is an initiative for student and staff teams to develop ideas to decarbonise our everyday lives!

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From Ambition to Action: Cambridge Zero Annual Report 2021

18 January 2022

We are pleased to present our annual report for academic year 2020-21. This report outlines the huge amount of work done by our growing team both across the University of Cambridge and with local, national and international partners during our first full year of operation.