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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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

30 Sep 2021: Dr Noelia Zafra-Calvo - BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change Equity, justice and diversity: towards a transformation in area-based conservation in the twenty-first century Several voices have claimed that in addition to setting goals and targets

26 Jul 2021: We were pleased to invite you for the session in the Development Corridors Partnership (DCP) webinar series “From Infrastructure to Development Corridors,” which took place on 27th July 2021 (Tuesday), from 14:00 - 15:00 EAT | 12:00 – 13:00 BST

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

1 Nov 2021: Chris Sandbrook with PhD student Rogelio Luque Lora. There will be a limit of 40 people in total in the Main Seminar Room, and we will admit people on a first

5 Jul 2021: The University Museum of Zoology are set to launch their new summer exhibition, featuring artworks from three artists plus an original giant extinct elephant bird egg belonging to Sir David Attenborough.

11 Mar 2021: Dr Sergey Kolesnikov C-EENRG Fellow, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge How technology spillovers contribute to clean energy innovation Abstract: Knowledge spillovers are knowledge developed for one purpose finding application for a

12 Apr 2021: In this Tuesday's group meeting, we are delighted to have Hannah Griffiths from the University of Bristol to give a talk, details as follows: The impact of termites on soil processes, ecosystem resilience and carbon flux in tropical rainforest

12 Apr 2021: was named one of the most 100 influential people in climate policy worldwide in 2019 by Apolitical. ... During her tenure as minister, Bee Yin was recognised by the renowned scientific journal 'Nature' as one of the top 10 people who mattered in 2018.

26 Jul 2021: Topic in brief. The communication to young people and the public of information about sustainability, in particular factors affecting: (a) climate change and (b)human interactions with other species and the

1 Nov 2021: This online course spans 5 weeks, and incorporates 6 hours of self-learning per week, plus 2 hours expert led live session each Friday. You will learn how to develop your understanding of and the practical skills required to be a more effective

7 Jun 2021: Join us for this Thursday's networking morning at 11am where Dr Andrew Bladon from the Department of Zoology will discuss his research and recently released paper: Climatic change and extinction risk of two globally threatened Ethiopian endemic bird

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.

14 Jun 2021: Dr Benedict Probst Senior Researcher, ETH Zurich | C-EENRG Fellow Global Trends in the Invention and Diffusion of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies

8 Feb 2021: “Leadership is arguably the most important attribute in the tool kit of a conservation biologist”. Dietz et al, 2004 Successful and high-achieving conservation biologists often find themselves in leadership roles within projects and organisations

19 Jul 2021: I am writing to inform you that new operating measures will take effect in the CCI Campus from Monday 19th July 2021.

5 May 2021: The roots of our ecological crisis. Group discussion presented by Rogelio Luque-Lora. To attend events, please join their mailing list (https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/geog-polec) or email Rogelio Luque-Lora on: rl469@cam.ac.uk .

6 Apr 2021: The fourth 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

24 May 2021: Join us for this Thursday's networking morning at 11am where PhD student, Rogelio Luque-Lora will discuss his recent policy briefing on Nature-Based Solutions.

29 Mar 2021: Please join us at 11am when we will be joined by Angalee Nadesalingam from Cambridge Infectious Diseases. Angalee Nadesalingam is a PhD candidate in the Laboratory of Viral Zoonotics, and part of the interdisciplinary research centre, Cambridge

28 Jun 2021: In our next group meeting we will be hearing from Jeremy Fonielle, who will give a talk on his research findings about organic matter diversity in lakes. Abstract: Freshwaters cover less than three percent of the earth's surface but process as much

29 Jan 2021: And as the festival is online this year, we’re excited to welcome people from around the world to be part of these conversations too!