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Kamiar Mohaddes paper runner-up in FT awards

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Kamiar Mohaddes paper runner-up in FT awards

The Financial Times Thursday, 20 January, 2022 Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes‘s paper, “Rising Temperatures, Falling Ratings: The Effect of Climate Change on Sovereign Creditworthiness”, was named runner-up in the Financial Times Responsible Business Education Awards. The paper, joint with Patrycja Klusak, Matthew Agarwala, Matt Burke, and Moritz Kraemer, uses AI to put science, economics, and materiality…

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Fighting climate change will help economic growth

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Fighting climate change will help economic growth

Dr Kamiar Mohaddes Tuesday, 16 August, 2022 Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes‘s research into long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change, has been featured in an article on the University of Cambridge news site. The papers, joint with Matthew E.Kahn, Ryan N.C.Ng, M. Hashem Pesaran, Mehdi Raissi and Jui-Chung Yang, look at macroeconomic effects of Climate Change and…

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Cambridge Historian cited in Vatican climate crisis announcement

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Cambridge Historian cited in Vatican climate crisis announcement

Tuesday, 10 October 2023 Cambridge Historian cited in Vatican climate crisis announcement News Pope Francis’s latest Apostolic Exhortation, Laudate Deum, was published in October 2023 and cites the work of Paul Warde, Professor in Environmental History at the Cambridge History Faculty, in arguing for a fundamental rethink of human interactions with the environment governed by…

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Clinical School’s Distinguished Lecturer 2023

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Lung Cancer Promotion by Air Pollution: Towards Molecular Cancer Prevention Professor Charlie Swanton Where: William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine. When: 11 October, 17:30 Charlie Swanton (UCL and the Crick) will be the Clinical School’s Distinguished Lecturer this year. The lecture will be at 17.30 on the 11 October. Charlie has made major contributions…

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Extreme environments as sources of fungal endophytes mitigating climate change impacts on crops in Mediterranean-type ecosystems

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The post Extreme environments as sources of fungal endophytes mitigating climate change impacts on crops in Mediterranean-type ecosystems appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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Public Map Platform project supporting green transition secures major funding

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A team led by Prof Flora Samuel from Cambridge’s Department of Architecture has been awarded one of four new £4.625 million Green Transition Ecosystem grants by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to create a Public Map Platform for Future Generations to chart the green transition on the Isle of Anglesey/Ynys Môn. The Public…

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Retreating sea ice keeps zooplankton in the depths

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Retreating sea ice keeps zooplankton in the depths

Climate change is affecting the vertical migration of zooplankton in the Arctic, with potential implications for the entire Arctic ecosystem, finds a new study, published today in Nature Climate Change. … The post Retreating sea ice keeps zooplankton in the depths appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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Community Open Map Platform project supporting green transition secures major funding

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Community Open Map Platform project supporting green transition secures major funding

pont_britannia_english_-_britannia_bridge_crosses_the_menai_strait_between_the_isle_of_anglesey_and_city_of_bangor_gwynedd_wales_06.jpg   A team led by Prof Flora Samuel from Cambridge’s Department of Architecture has been awarded one of four new £4.625 million Green Transition Ecosystem grants by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to create a Community Open Map Platform (COMP) for Future Generations to chart the green transition on the Isle of…

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Urgent call for more Southern Ocean research

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Urgent call for more Southern Ocean research

Today, hundreds of international scientists are sounding a clarion call for urgent expansion of Southern Ocean research in the emerging climate crisis. 300 scientists from 25 nations have been meeting … The post Urgent call for more Southern Ocean research appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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Community Open Map Platform (COMP) Green Transitions Ecosystem Project

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Community Open Map Platform (COMP) Green Transitions Ecosystem Project

green_transition.png   A team led by Prof Flora Samuel from Cambridge’s Department of Architecture has been awarded one of four new £4.625 million Green Transition Ecosystem grants by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to create a Community Open Map Platform (COMP) for Future Generations to chart the green transition on the Isle of…

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