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Recycling charity gets John Lewis support

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The John Lewis Foundation made a grant of £4,500 to a charity in Witchford last week.

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XR graduate’s climate activism at Cambridge presentation is a first

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Sustainability student Sarah Clark attended ceremony with Extinction Rebellion in mind

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Cambridge climate protesters target BP recruitment events

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Cambridge climate protesters target BP recruitment events

The recruitment events were held in the same week that the University announced a new initiative to respond to climate change

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Extinction Rebellion Blockade Queen’s Road

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Extinction Rebellion Blockade Queen’s Road

Protestors held up traffic for ten minutes

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Paul Gilding: Climate Emergency Defined

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What is a climate emergency and does the evidence justify one? This report from CISL Fellow Paul Gilding reviews the evidence about the scale, timing and urgency of the risks posed by climate change to determine whether an emergency response is both necessary and feasible.

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‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas

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‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas

Image: Virgil Andrei, Department of Chemistry Monday, October 21, 2019 A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an ‘artificial leaf’ that uses only sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, researchers here have successfully demonstrated. And the artificial leaf could eventually be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to…

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City Council cuts carbon emissions by a quarter

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City Council cuts carbon emissions by a quarter

A new report reveals a 25.2% reduction over four years

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The Climate Breakthrough

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October 2019 – Dame Polly Courtice, Director of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, considers how our growing understanding of climate change must translate into an urgent and inclusive transformation of the global economy.

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Blowing in the Wind: Renewable energy and Ethnic Minorities in Chinese Inner Mongolia

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Soil management

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October 2019: Climate change changing rainfall patterns may show negative effects on soil’s ability to retain water. Reduced soil resilience increases risks of groundwater depletion, flash floods, and release of carbon stored in soil.

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