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7 Jan 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 Jan 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.

27 Sep 2021: Are you an Early Career Researcher (Postdoc / PhD student) at Cambridge, working on climate change / net-zero / low-carbon solutions? Would you like to present your research at our upcoming Cambridge Zero Research Symposia?

5 May 2021: Join Paul Robbins from University of Wisconsin-Madison to discuss to topic of: John Muir, Indigenous erasure, and conservation reckoning. To attend events, please join our mailing list (https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/geog-polec) or email

6 Apr 2021: The second of a five lunchtime seminar series introducing the CCI Strategy 2021 - 2030 and sharing next steps for how to get involved. The Strategy outlines four key priority areas of focus over the next decade.

12 Mar 2021: The joint conversation will explore the recent work and research by leading Japanese designer Kenya Hara (原研哉) and London-based architect Asif Khan. ... His recent works include the New Museum of London, currently under construction, the blackest

5 Feb 2021: Global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have made southern China a hotspot for bat-borne coronaviruses, by driving growth of forest habitat favoured by bats. Governments must seize the opportunity to reduce health risks from infectious

7 Jan 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.

18 Oct 2021: Anthropology and Conservation – Virtual Conference Livestream in DAB 25 October - October 29, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm CCI has co-organised a major upcoming Royal Anthropological Institute conference on Anthropology and Conservation.

4 Jun 2021: Praveen Pardeshi , an Indian civil servant currently leading the United Nations’ global efforts to prevent non-communicable diseases. He was served as Principal Secretary of Forests of Maharashtra (India) and will speak on ‘Trade-offs in

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.

23 Nov 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

13 Jan 2021: Voluntary Resettlement of People from Protected Areas This week’s seminar will be presented by students from the MPhil in Conservation Leadership on the theme of resettlement.

11 Mar 2021: Nature-rich sites such as woods and wetlands more valuable because of the ‘ecosystem services’ they provide The economic benefits of protecting nature-rich sites such as wetlands and woodlands outweigh the profit that could be made from using

25 Mar 2021: Project 6: Assessing the impacts of Covid-19 on-field centres around the world Supervisors: Dr Sarah Luke and Dr Edgar Turner The project will offer the intern support and training in survey-based data collection, data analysis, and scientific

25 Feb 2021: We are very pleased to invite you to a virtual seminar which will be given by Professor Sir David King as part of the Seminar series for the China Centre, Jesus College. The lecture, followed by Q&A, will take place from 5 – 6.30pm on Wednesday 3

17 Aug 2021: The Conservation Research Institute Conference: Playlist This year, the annual Conservation Research Institute Conference took place online and was recorded for those unable to attend.

16 Apr 2021: Prof Daniel Rubenstein from Princeton University presents this week's seminar. Fisheries provide food for a large part of humanity, often with heavy environmental footprints.

28 Jun 2021: This week’s Cambridge Conservation Initiative Seminar will be presented by Dr James Borrell from Kew “Efficient and sustainable agriculture is crucial for human wellbeing, but agrobiodiversity is declining in unison with wild biodiversity.

8 Mar 2021: Cambridge Public Health and Cambridge Global Food Security IRCs have joined forces to host an interdisciplinary panel discussion on child food insecurity, food banks and the impact of Covid-19. Dr Giles Yeo (The University of Cambridge) will chair a

18 Oct 2021: The Zoology Department is delighted to invite you to its 5th Annual Equalities and Wellbeing Lecture by Professor Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic on … Why do so many incompetent men become leaders? Prof Chamorro-Premuzic’s interests lie at the interface

5 Jul 2021: A discussion of the potential of marine cloud brightening and localized albedo modification for refreezing the Arctic About this event World-renowed ice expert Professor Peter Wadhams is in the chair for this, the third in our summer workshop series

5 Jul 2021: The latest research on stratospheric aerosol injection, its potential benefits and risks, and other techniques for refreezing the Arctic.

26 Apr 2021: Divinity, Hormones and the Forest For the Jane Harrison Lecture, Ruth Padel will bring together different strands of her work – on tragedy and Greek religion, poetry and Charles Darwin, science, nature, and wildlife conservation – to ask how we

10 May 2021: Recent publications include: Changing Regional Alliances for China and the West (With G. ... Recent articles have been published in Critical Sociology, The Third World Quarterly, International Critical Thought and Mir Rossii.

8 Mar 2021: We would like to invite you to attend the sixth Cambridge Zero Research Symposium, on Carbon Drawdown & Climate Repair, on Wed 10th March, from 15.00-17.15. If interested, we kindly ask you to please register your attendance here.

26 Apr 2021: Containing an estimated 1.1 million plant specimens and dating back at least to the early 1700s, the Cambridge University Herbarium has received little research attention in recent years.

8 Feb 2021: The last few decades of human prosperity have taken a “devastating” ecological toll, and the Review highlights recent estimates that suggest we would need 1.6 Earths to maintain humanity's

14 Jan 2021: It is with great pleasure to welcome you back to our CEENRG Research Seminar Series of Lent Term 2021, hosted at the Center for Energy, Environment and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG).

26 Apr 2021: When: 1.30pm, Wednesday 28 April Meeting ID: 115 814 437 Password: 022424 Speaker: Daniel I. Rubenstein Title: Moonshot for the Environment: A new way of funding emerging scientists Abstract: Attached is a press release and link to the beta version

26 Apr 2021: Divinity, Hormones and the Forest For the Jane Harrison Lecture, Ruth Padel will bring together different strands of her work – on tragedy and Greek religion, poetry and Charles Darwin, science, nature, and wildlife conservation – to ask how we

22 Apr 2021: The University was awarded a Gold rating in the recent UK Teaching Excellence Framework.

6 Apr 2021: The third of a five lunchtime seminar series introducing the CCI Strategy 2021 - 2030 and sharing next steps for how to get involved. The Strategy outlines four key priority areas of focus over the next decade. This session is focused on Priority

23 Aug 2021: Our vision is that by doubling the area of rich wildlife habitats and natural green space, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough will become an outstanding environment where nature and people thrive, and businesses prosper.

3 Feb 2021: How Places Matter: A New Theory of Environmental Value This week, we'll be hearing from environmental philosopher Simon James from the University of Durham.

21 Jun 2021: From the global obesity epidemic to diet-related disease being the world's biggest killer, we just can't seem to get our diets right. What makes it so hard for us to eat healthily? Is will-power alone the answer or do genes play a part? Should

12 Apr 2021: Twenty years ago, the Gates Foundation made a landmark donation to establish the Gates Cambridge Scholarship Programme. As part of a year-long programme of celebrations, the Vice-Chancellor invites you to join this very special online event to take

12 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

21 Jun 2021: The TAA 8th Annual East Anglia Seminar was held on 30th June, 2 - 4 pm as a webinar. The webinar focused on the alignment between sustainable agriculture and rural development with an emphasis on the conservation and harnessing of natural processes

17 May 2021: Register on the Climateexp0 website

18 Feb 2021: Join Ed Turner to learn more about the work his group is doing to investigate whether oil palm can be grown with lower environmental cost. Oil palm has often been in the press because of its negative impacts on biodiversity, particularly in some of

25 Feb 2021: Professor Veerle Heyvaert London School of Economics and Political Science Issues of transnational environmental law and risk regulation Register Here

28 Jun 2021: We are pleased to announce that Daljit Nagra,Radio 4 & 4 Extra’s inaugural Poet-in-Residence and this year’s judge for The Nature & Place Poetry Competition, along with the 2021 Prize winners, will be reading their poems at a live online event

17 May 2021: What is currently happening with climate change and conservation? What are the next steps to be taken? Has the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted our efforts towards a greener world? How can technology help us?

25 Mar 2021: Project 10: Assessing the effects of forest harvest on natural climate solutions Supervisors: Dr Andrew Tanentzap and Erika C.

26 Feb 2021: Dr Amber Huff, from the Institute of Development Studies, will be delivering a talk entitled: Pacification and the engineering of ‘green’ extraction in southern Madagascar The Rio Tinto QIT-Madagascar Minerals (QMM) ilmenite mine in

1 Nov 2021: Prof Vincent from the University of British Columbia will explain why we need to end bottom trawl fishing in the ocean, using a lens of research, management and policy. Our voyage begins with seahorse conservation and ends with a determination to

1 Nov 2021: When the patent for a painkiller expired in 1993, cheap generic versions were introduced to the market across the Indian subcontinent and were quickly adopted by livestock farmers.

12 May 2021: A report launched today by the British Ecological Society, with contributions from the University of Cambridge, offers the first complete assessment of the potential of nature-based solutions to mitigate climate change and benefit biodiversity in

20 Sep 2021: As part of the Alumni Festival 2021 at the University of Cambridge, Lucy Cavendish College are delighted to announce that Dr Howard P. Nelson will be giving a virtual talk on 28th September at 6pm BST. Dr Nelson is a Trinidadian wildlife biologist