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11 Oct 2021: Dr Pablo Salas Bravo Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellow in Radical Innovation and Disruption, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership | CEENRG Deputy Director & Fellow, University of Cambridge Is the temperature score the right

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

19 Jul 2021: Applications open for CCI knowledge-exchange studentships Fostering effective collaborations between academic research and and practice in the field is a key focus for CCI.

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

7 Jan 2021: Last month the Endangered Landscapes Artist Residencies and Arts Prize was launched. The prize will be administered by the Endangered Landscapes Programme (ELP) and CCI’s Arts, Science and Conservation Programme (ASCP).

13 Jan 2021: My topic will be around the positive effects of nature on mental health in young people. ... The trick now is to galvanise people to support and see that nature is all around where they live.

8 Mar 2021: CCI Collaborative Fund 2021 – call for applications We are delighted to announce that this year’s call for applications to the CCI Collaborative Fund is now open. CCI Partners are invited to submit applications for the CCI Collaborative Fund for

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

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.

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,

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

30 Sep 2021: Thursday 9th December, 4:00-5:00pm Please note the change of day Dr Eyal Frank - University of Chicago The social costs of keystone species collapse: Evidence from the decline of vultures in India When the patent for a painkiller expired in 1993,

22 Nov 2021: The Endangered Landscapes Programme is delighted to announce the artists selected for the Endangered Landscapes Artist Residencies.

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 Mar 2021: A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women

7 Jan 2021: I must reiterate, however, the Government’s request that only people who absolutely cannot work from home can go into their normal places of work. ... This very significant milestone is a testament to the tireless work of the many people who have done

24 May 2021: Kate Howlett, a PhD student at the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, will talk about her research into the importance of green space in UK primary schools.

27 Jan 2021: Biodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history. Since 1970, there has been on average almost a 70% decline in the populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians.

25 Jan 2021: The Sussex Energy Group Keynote Lecture is an annual event hosted by one of the largest independent social science energy policy research groups in the world.

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.

1 Feb 2021: The Disability Resource Centre at the University of Cambridge is now recruiting mentors to work with disabled students. The closing date is Monday 15 February, 3pm. To find out more, including details of how to apply and the role description, please

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

15 Mar 2021: Join the Curator of the University Herbarium, Dr Lauren Gardiner, to learn how you can contribute to this exciting and new-for-Cambridge citizen science project.

19 Apr 2021: We are in the midst of the 6th mass extinction event, with extinctions occurring faster than at any time in the last 65 million years. ‘Bioabundance’ is in rapid decline, with recent studies showing that insects in particular seem to be

14 Jun 2021: This week's Cambridge Conservation Initiative Seminar will be presented by Dr Maria Dornelas from the University of St Andrews We typically assume that recent times have seen biodiversity loss everywhere.

1 Nov 2021: Join us to hear Warren Evans of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Carlos Manuel Rodriguez (GEF) in discussion about Birdlife International's East Asian Australasian Flyway Initiative. You can also join online here:

18 Oct 2021: The Dingy Skipper (Erynnis tages) is a specialist butterfly species with a large distribution range across Britain and Ireland. However, population numbers have dropped by over 60% since the 1970s, making the Dingy Skipper a priority species in the

21 Apr 2021: In this Thursday's weekly networking session, we will be joined by PhD candidate, Josh Brian, from the Aquatic Ecology Group in the Department of Zoology. Josh will discuss his latest policy perspective: Don't move a mussel?

30 Sep 2021: We have also consulted with and studied the people involved, seeking new ways to reconcile conservation and human well-being.

8 Oct 2021: Talk by Dr. Liana Chua: Tuesday 12th October 1pm We are delighted to welcome Dr. Liana Chua who will be speaking next week on “Only the orangutans get a life jacket’: Uncommoning responsibility in a global conservation nexus”. I know many of

8 Mar 2021: We are delighted to announce that this year’s call for applications to the CCI Collaborative Fund is now open. CCI Partners are invited to submit applications for the CCI Collaborative Fund for Conservation, for collaborative projects.

24 May 2021: In our next group meeting we are delighted to welcome Connor Nolan, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University, to give a talk about his recent paper on natural climate solutions’ contributions to

13 Jan 2021: This week's seminar will be presented by Dr Michelle Jackson from the University of Oxford. Dr Jackson's research interest lies in understanding individual-to-ecosystem level responses to environmental change, including warming, invasion, pollution

8 Jan 2021: Please join us for the official launch event on January 9th, 2021 | 7:30 pm Pacific, 10:30 pm Eastern Time | Sponsored by the Mind & Life Institute We're pleased to announce the release of Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops, a series of five short

26 Jul 2021: In our upcoming Tuesday group meeting we will be discussing two Global Change Biology papers on soil carbon dynamics that came out earlier this week, Mitchell et al. (2021) and O'Bryan et al. (2021), linked below.

11 Mar 2021: The Planetary Health diet recommends approximately 16kg of meat per person per year for a healthy and sustainable diet for 10 billion people.

12 Apr 2021: Collaboration can be one of the most rewarding aspects of a research career: bringing exciting perspectives and opportunities, enhanced productivity, access to resources and enduring relationships. It can also lead to some of our biggest challenges

29 Jan 2021: Mental Health in the Digital World Join CT&S on Zoom on Monday 8th February for a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion on mental health in a digital world. The panel will cover topics including child mental health, Silicon Valley companies and

1 Feb 2021: In this series of four sessions, Kathrin Hicks will present a framework for understanding how physical and mental factors interact in the experience of long term health conditions, drawing on ideas from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Mindfulness.

30 Sep 2021: Professor Naomi Oreskes - Harvard University Why trust science? Livestream: David Attenborough Building - Main Seminar Room

22 Nov 2021: Stonechats are present throughout the winter at the Great Fen and have been selected as a focus for monitoring. The birds are slightly smaller and more slender looking than robins, with clear differences in colouration between males and females.

5 May 2021: Developing a Toolkit for Mapping and Deliberating Values for Uplands Management Land uses in the UK uplands can become contested and may develop into conflicts, perhaps particularly when conservation stakeholders are involved.

30 Sep 2021: Professor Jane Memmott - University of Bristol Community ecology – Pure fun and practical too In this talk I will focus on three projects which have a community level approach, and use the latest approaches from pure ecology, but which have

30 Apr 2021: This week we will be joined by Professor Anne Saab, Graduate from the Institute of International and Development Studies Global WarNing where she will discuss: Discourses of Fear in International Climate Change Law. Register here...

1 Jun 2021: This week, Prof Milind Tambe from Harvard University presents the conservation seminar.

25 Mar 2021: offset emissions in hard-to-decarbonise sectors and delivering many other benefits for people and biodiversity.

10 Feb 2021: He is currently working on a number of collaborative projects concerning nature and lockdown; specifically how people engage with gardens and local green spaces, and the various ways in which nature

10 Feb 2021: Impacts of REDD in Brazil C-EENRG Fellow | Scientist, Scion, New Zealand Forest Research Institute Dr Thales A.P. West We are very much looking forward to welcoming Dr. Thales West (CEENRG Fellow, Forest Carbon Scientist at Scion, New Zealand Forest

30 Sep 2021: Three talks celebrating CCI Alumni Dr Josie Chambers - Wageningen University & Research Co-productive agility for sustainability transformations Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors, is argued

4 Mar 2021: This week, CEENRG will be joined by Dr Sabrina Eisenbarth from the University of Exeter Business School. Register Here