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Council relaunches Ideas Forum for residents ahead of next Climate Change Action Plan

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Date:  Wed, 01/06/2021 East Cambridgeshire District Council is relaunching its Ideas Forum to give residents an opportunity to submit their thoughts on how the council could reduce their carbon emissions and boost the natural environment. The relaunch allows residents to submit their ideas ahead of the creation of the council’s second annual Climate Change Action…

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Lightning strikes twice for Molecule of the Year

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Lightning strikes twice for Molecule of the Year

Artist’s interpretation of the new molecule, courtesy Cambridge Photography Wednesday, January 6, 2021 For the second year running, researchers in the Nitschke group have had a molecule crowned as C & EN’s Molecule of the Year. The porous ionic liquid prepared by postgraduate student Lillian Ma was chosen by readers of Chemical & Engineering News…

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The Department would like congratulate PhD student Maria Paz Gutierrez on being shortlisted for this year’s President’s Awards for Research in their annual theme of Climate Change

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Sustainable hydrogen production a step closer

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Sustainable hydrogen production a step closer

Courtesy Department of Chemistry Photography Thursday, January 7, 2021 The creation of hydrogen from sunlight and waste has received funding to support development towards commercialisation. Photoreforming is a process which uses sunlight to transform biomass, food and plastic waste into hydrogen. Now researchers in the Reisner group have received a European Research Council Proof of…

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Council’s 2021 budget set to tackle inequality and climate change in face of unprecedented challenges

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Council’s 2021 budget set to tackle inequality and climate change in face of unprecedented challenges

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Extinction Rebellion Cambridge: Two years on for ‘the group that came out of nowhere’ for climate justice

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How the climate change emergency has motivated activism in the community

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How can we move towards the future we want?

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22 December 2020 – In 2020 the coronavirus pandemic tested us all, both individually and collectively. It has also revealed the fragility of our current economic and social systems in the face of crisis. This comes at a time when further ‘system shocks’ are expected from climate change and the destruction of our natural systems,…

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ARU student to cycle from Cambridge to Istanbul

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Cristiano Dias will be cycling from England to Turkey to bring attention to the climate crisis.

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Chemical looping of biomass shows potential as ‘carbon negative’ energy solution

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Chemical looping of biomass shows potential as ‘carbon negative’ energy solution

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Peak Youth, Climate Change and the Role of Young People in Seizing their Future

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