Climate change
September 2019: Climate change has the potential to erode human rights, such as social security, access to food, healthcare, shelter, and decent work. The report identifies government leadership and private sector investments as key drivers to adapt current human rights mechanisms.
Applications invited for three city council grants – tackling inequality, homelessness and climate change
New study reveals the first evidence of a direct link between human-induced global warming and melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
We’re delighted to announce that Srinivasan Keshav will be joining the Department from October, as the new Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science. At Cambridge, Professor Srinivasan Keshav will be working broadly on using techniques and technologies from computer science to encourage the adoption of renewable energy, reduce the carbon footprint of legacy systems, and…
Charles Higham (Otago) – The impact of climate change on the rise and fall of early Southeast Asian states
Whether you want to predict the Earth’s climate or forecast its daily weather, you need to understand the behaviour of the fluids that make up atmosphere and oceans. Professor Peter Haynes of the Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics Group at DAMTP is one of the mathematicians who provide this crucial understanding. His work in the field has recently…
We’re delighted to welcome Dr Emily Shuckburgh OBE to the Department as Reader in Environmental Data Science, from 1st May 2019. Emily has worked as a climate scientist for the British Antarctic Survey for more than a decade, where she led on polar oceanography research and conducted research expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic. She…
Oxford University Press has published Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law edited by Dr Emma Lees and Professor Jorge E. Viñuales . The volume brings together over 50 authors from around the world, including some of the most prominent authorities on different countries and topics, to analyse environmental law as a key technology to tackle…
Every year the Cambridge Ring celebrates the successes of companies founded by graduates of the Department of Computer Science and Technology. The winners of the 2019 Hall of Fame Awards are: Company of the Year: PolyAI PolyAI aims to revolutionise call centres with its state-of-the-art conversational AI. The founders of this London start-up met at…
The near-Earth space environment is host to an increasing amount of advanced, satellite-based technology, used for both commercial and scientific purposes. To safeguard this technology and ensure that we can …