Climate crisis
Shorthand Story: 4patKuXNMt Shorthand Story Head: COP28 Briefing Shorthand Story Body: Introduction Ask 1. Phase out fossil fuels Ask 2. Take urgent 1.5 aligned action Ask 3. Nature and climate together Ask 4. Ambitious and detailed goal on adaptation Ask 5. Scale up private finance for EMDEs Ask 6. Operationalise Loss & Damage fund Ask…
Candidates spoke to Varsity about their priorities, discussing the conflict in Israel and Gaza, and the climate crisis
The latest artificial leaf hitches a lift on a punt on the River Cam Thursday, November 9, 2023 Researchers here have developed a floating, solar-powered device that can turn contaminated water or seawater into clean hydrogen fuel and purified water, anywhere in the world The device could be useful in resource-limited or off-grid environments, since…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
image of cells and electrons during photosynthesis Wednesday, March 22, 2023 An in-depth study of photosynthesis could lead to new ways of generating clean fuel and renewable energy. Dr Jenny Zhang from this department has coordinated an international team of physicists, chemists and biologists to study the earliest stages of photosynthesis in live cells at…