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26 Apr 2021: Journal club on Hoffmann et al 2019 paper titled "Predicted climate shifts within terrestrial protected areas worldwide". As always, please let me know if any of you want to do the introduction.

25 Feb 2021: Earth Optimism will be happening in conjunction with the Cambridge Festival between 26 March & 4 April 2021 Given the crisis facing nature, it is all too easy to give up hope. Yet, around the globe, we are winning the fight to protect the natural

13 Sep 2021: The CambPlants Hub is coordinating the University's participation at REAP Conference 2021 on 10 November, and there are opportunities for you to contribute your research for promotion on the University's stand. We are promoting relevant research and

16 Feb 2021: In honor of World Pangolin Day, February 20, 2021, Save Pangolins is hosting a virtual charity run in support of our conservation programs.

12 Jul 2021: In our next weekly group meeting we are delighted to welcome Sylvie Estrela, a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, to give a talk on her eLife paper titled "Nutrient dominance governs the a

8 Jul 2021: Please join us for our annual Conservation Research Institute conference on Friday 15 October 2021. To keep everyone safe and well, a full COVID risk assessment will be completed – hand sanitiser will be provided and the room will be fully

7 Jun 2021: In our next Tuesday group meeting, we will be holding a journal club to discuss the Cushman et al. 2021 paper on Scientific Reports titled "Impact of a tropical forest blowdown on aboveground carbon balance".

12 Jan 2021: The Cambridge Master of Accounting degree programme is designed to help students facilitate global change leadership.

24 May 2021: Search site. Conservation Research Institute. CSG Journal Club. Join the Conservation Science Group Journal Club to discuss the recent publication titled 'Ecosystem integrity is neither real nor valuable.'.

12 Feb 2021: Just a gentle reminder about our Food for Thought Coffee Break TODAY at 2.30pm to hear from and discuss with Dr Emma Garnett what approaches work to increase vegetarian sales and reduce meat consumption. Please use the Zoom link below https://us02web

28 Jun 2021: CCI Priority Area Project CCI have identified four priority areas which will form the focus of their efforts over the next ten years. They are consulting the whole CCI community to gather ideas for projects which can address these areas. As such we

26 Feb 2021: The Call for Submissions for Climate Exp0 has been extended to 10 March 2021.

16 Aug 2021: Hedge hoardings is a walk around Kings Hedges, following the ward’s ancient hedgerows, discovering plants and foraging. Led by artist Hermione Spriggs and local forager/historian Cab Davidson, this event explores hedges as edible places that offer

12 May 2021: Title: Subject formation through the influence of conservation governance: A feminist intersectional approach to neoliberal environmentality Abstract: Research on environmentality has provided insights on subject formation through the influence of

1 Jun 2021: Cambridge City Council and Cambridge Doughnut Economics Action Group (CamDEAG) are working together to create a city portrait of Cambridge, to help us live in a fairer society within the planet’s boundaries. They are in the early stages of this

16 Aug 2021: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi play a major role in 'feeding' plants the nutrients they need to grow. This event provides a microscopic view of what is feeding all the plants around us; making these seemingly invisible networks visible.

15 Mar 2021: We are delighted to launch our Conservation Research Institute Summer 2021 Studentship open to undergraduates at the University of Cambridge. We have a total of 10 great projects which will take place in July or August 2021 and will last for one

10 Aug 2021: Earth has warmed 1.09℃ since pre-industrial times and many changes such as sea-level rise and glacier melt are now virtually irreversible, according to the most sobering report yet by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The

15 Jan 2021: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has currently an open call (here) on "Small farming innovations for small-scale producers" and focuses are various countries in Africa and Asia. The call focuses on upscaling of smart farming solutions that

25 Oct 2021: ‘Crafting usable knowledge for sustainable development’. We will give a brief intro to the paper at the start and then have a discussion about our thoughts and ideas that were sparked.

10 May 2021: Next week, we have three speakers joining us: Chris Sandbrook, University of Cambridge, cgs21@cam.ac.uk Douglas Clark, University of Saskatchewan, d.clark@usask.ca Trishant Simlai, University of Cambridge, tts25@cam.ac.uk They’re going to be

22 Feb 2021: Cambridge at COP26: Expression of Interest Cambridge Zero is planning a submission for shared exhibition/event space at COP26 in November.

1 Nov 2021: This Thursday, 4th November (2-3pm UK Time), our next CEENRG seminar of this term will take place and you are all very cordially invited to join.

1 Nov 2021: Discussion next week: RAI debrief Our discussion on Tuesday (1pm) will be a debrief from the conference, where people will share the things they have learnt and some of the ideas that were circulating. Those of you who attended and/or spoke please

28 Jun 2021: Welcome to CCI Book Club, our next meeting will be on Tuesday 13th July at 13.00 - 14.00 (BST) via Zoom, where we will be discussing The Deep by Alex Rogers. As always, please consider supporting an independent book store if you can, or order via

2 Sep 2021: “What Clay Can Say” Zoom Talk at 1.15pm BST next Wednesday 8 September 2021 is a public engagement activity of the Breaking Point: Fragility in Clay and Nature exhibition curated by CCI’s Arts Science Conservation Programme with the Museum of

16 Aug 2021: A guessing game and an exclusive peek inside laboratories and research facilities at the University of Cambridge. This on-line event will feature mini-video tours of several experiments and research facilities that are not open to the public.

25 Jan 2021: th. January from 11 – 11.30 am. These short, informal sessions are designed to give our network a chance to catch up and discuss recent papers. ... This week Sasha Khoury will discuss her paper 'Resilience of Spanish forests to recent droughts and

4 Oct 2021: Recycle, Reuse and Relax! We wish you a good fresh start of the term and hope to see many of you coming back to the DAB. We are organizing a tidy up session this Friday the 8th of October at 4:45 pm, followed by a Happy Hour in the common room.

22 Nov 2021: Coffee Break Seminars is a relaxed online learning and discussion platform for our food security community. This seminar was held on 26 November at 3pm, GMT.

2 Nov 2021: British Antarctic Survey This workshop will talk about what the BAS polar data centre dataset does, the data that is available and go into detail about some of the biodiversity and biological long term monitoring data that are held.

6 Sep 2021: Despite our best efforts, most of us are likely to experience failure at some point. While nobody likes to fail, how we deal with failure can make an enormous difference to our eventual results.

7 Jun 2021: Ocean+ Habitats 2021 Launch at 1300 BST on World Ocean’s Day (Tuesday 8th June 2021) streamed live via YouTube and Facebook.

19 Jul 2021: The most recent round of this knowledge-exchange studentship was awarded to Esme Ashe-Jepson.

22 Nov 2021: Join us at 11am in the Common Room, David Attenborough Building for cake, coffee and conversation. Catch up with old colleagues and meet the members of the CRI network sat within the shared space. We look forward to seeing you there!

26 Jul 2021: EIT Food is a lead sponsor for the New Scientist Live ‘Creating a Sustainable Future’ event taking place on 25 September 2021.

5 May 2021: Catalonia and Scotland are two cases that perfectly illustrate this: two European stateless nations where recent political turmoil is still altering what it is to be Catalan or Scottish.

26 Mar 2021: Welcome to Making space for nature where speakers will discuss the ambitious new initiatives aiming to restore natural habitats across the country: Lessons from transforming UK landscapes for wildlife and people, Recovering India's megafauna,

4 May 2021: “The Green Transition in Natural Resources” When: 17th May 2021, 3-4 pm UK time (via Zoom) Where: https://zoom.us/j/99383670292?pwd=WHZlaktrRHVpSTd0a3lKTFlhRm9zdz09 Panel Members: Pippa Howard (Flora and Fauna International) and Andy Whitmore

19 Mar 2021: How to Use iRecord Right now there are thousands of dedicated volunteers around the world collecting data that is contributing to scientific research. They are called citizen scientists and in the world of wildlife conservation, they are true heroes.

15 Mar 2021: Join the Curator of the University Herbarium, Dr Lauren Gardiner, on a virtual behind-the-scenes tour of one of Cambridge’s least-known collections, a treasure trove of over a million preserved plant specimens collected from all over the world

26 Mar 2021: Welcome to Choosing sustainability and join speakers as they share their views on why we should all choose sustainability: Reducing an organisation’s footprint, Bringing peatlands back to life in Belarus, Ocean optimism in a sea of plastic,

11 Mar 2021: What will the conservation leadership landscape look like in ten years’ time and how do we get there? The conservation landscape has evolved rapidly since the Masters in Conservation Leadership was founded in 2010.

26 Mar 2021: Welcome to Innovating for conservation where speakers share inspiring stories that show how conservation can succeed through creativity and innovation: Activating new wildlife enthusiasts via games, Forest to furniture: a sustainable journey in home

18 Feb 2021: Karla Zambrano PhD Researcher, University of Valencia | C-EENRG Visiting Researcher Climate refugees: The big challenge of Public International Law and the European Union Register Here

1 Jun 2021: Join us for this Thursday's networking morning at 11am where we will be joined by PhD Student, Fleur Nash, who is currently in Kenya doing fieldwork.

22 Nov 2021: We are delighted to welcome Tom who will be talking about ‘Situating mental health within the nature-climate-wellbeing triple challenge: Evidence from rural Uganda’. Ecological change poses new and significant threats to human health, such as

12 Apr 2021: Cambridge Public Health Conference – 18 May 2021 This event is aimed at introducing new research and innovations focusing on supporting young people’s mental health, with an impressive programme of speakers and contributors who seek to influence

19 Apr 2021: On the eve of Earth Day, the latest in Synchronicity Earth’s Deeper Thinking Series, chaired by Synchronicity Earth founders Jessica and Adam Sweidan, explores how our understanding of flourishing diversity, informed by indigenous knowledge,

3 Feb 2021: His most recent book is Monopsony Capitalism Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age (Cambridge University Press, 2020).