Climate change
28 May 2020 – Alice Chapple, Course Convenor on the new Sustainable Finance online short course from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), explores the trends that are emerging in the world of finance, from the need to manage climate change risk, to responsible investment and harnessing big data.
April 2020: Climate change may amplify natural beach erosion which could significantly impact on sensitive wildlife habitats and coastal communities. Researchers are calling for increased adaptive capacities from coastal communities to build resilience and to increase efforts to curb climate change.
A 15-month project has been launched to explore how farms can capture carbon to combat climate change – and how they can be rewarded for it to replace revenue lost from EU subsidies.
More than 1,000 acres of farmland are being given back to nature in a bid to boost biodiversity and cut carbon emissions.
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When we see news reports on climate change on our TV, they are often accompanied by footage of a polar bear walking over the icy Arctic landscape. But the Arctic …
To mark Earth Day on Wednesday 22 April, our colleague Emily Shuckburgh will give the first virtual Turing Lecture on sustainability and the climate crisis. Emily is Reader in Environmental Data Science here and Director of Cambridge Zero at the University of Cambridge. She is a mathematician and climate scientist and a Fellow of Darwin…
March 2020: The spread of emerging infectious disease can be amplified by climate change and habitat loss. Environmental change is altering human-wildlife interactions which can accelerate the spread and intensity of disease outbreaks. It is recommended to treat disease outbreaks as symptoms of environmental degradation instead of isolated incidents.