Events

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What really happened at COP30? Good COP, Bad COP brings together leading experts to dissect the highs, lows, and next steps after the world’s biggest climate summit — and to answer your burning questions about where we go from here.

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Join us at the Centre for Climate Repair for the third seminar in our inspiring series, Discover Climate Repair. This one-hour session will shine a light on some of the most exciting research taking place across the University of Cambridge, showcasing how ground-breaking science is turning bold ideas into practical solutions for our changing climate.

Speakers: Zhenna Azimrayat Andrews, Luca Lin and Professor Hugh Hunt.

The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place from 10-21 November 2025 in Belém, Brazil.

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The second seminar of our Autumn series will explore real research happening in the UK right now. 

In-person and online

Speakers: 

• Prof Hugh Hunt (Dept of Engineering, Deputy Director of CCR)
• Clara Botto (Dept of Architecture, Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering (DSG))

Join us for the first seminar of our Autumn series, introducing climate repair and wrestling with the controversies and considerations of this kind of climate action. 

Arctic Repair has been proposed as a form of climate engineering that could be deployed to reduce declining sea ice over the Arctic summer. It does not address the root cause of climate change, and does not eliminate the urgent need to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions. Apart from scientific uncertainty surrounding repair techniques, there are ethical, political and social issues that also need to be addressed.

This conference, held in Cambridge, is an engaging event of discussions, research presentations and networking opportunities with the aim to bring together the latest research and ethical debates on climate repair.

Part of the Cambridge Festival, we invite you to a critical discussion on a pivotal topic in the fight against climate change: the role of climate interventions. 

Panellists include Oliver Morton (Senior Editor at The Economist Briefings), Alisha Fredriksson (Co-founder of Seabound), Hugh Hunt (Professor at Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge), and Robert Chris (Honorary Associate, Geography, The Open University).

Engineering has changed the world. But global temperatures are rising due to human action and emissions reduction is not sufficient to protect vulnerable people and places from the worst effects of climate change. What if engineering could help cool the planet? 

Engineering for the Climate, a seminar series from University of Cambridge and Centre for Climate Repair. 
LR4, Department of Engineering. 
27 Feb & 13 Mar 2025.
Free to attend and open to all.

In our final Lecture Series Seminar, a lively panel discussion will look at the outcomes of COP29 and what this means for Climate Repair in the future.

Chair:  Professor Hugh Hunt

Panel:

• Dr Natalie Jones
• Dr Joanna Depledge
• Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger 
• Dr Antoinette Nestor
• Dr Shaun Fitzgerald

Join Shaun Fitzgerald and Hugh Hunt in Baku for COP29! 

A list of the panels/events they will be appearing in are listed here so if you are attending COP this year and wish to hear about the latest developments and research we are undertaking in Climate Repair, do come along and join the discussions.

Shaun Fitzgerald will be in Baku between 11th November - 16th November 2024

Hugh Hunt will be in Baku between 17th November - 22nd November 2024

The third seminar in our Autumn Series looks at the sensitive issue of engagement with communities when looking into climate intervention technologies. Professor Michael Bravo of the Geography Department and Scott Polar Research Institute PhD student, Albert Van Wijngaarden will be discussing this issue.

In the second talk of our Autumn Seminar Series, we will look into climate repair research that is already in the field. Post Doc Dante McGrath and PhD students Jacob Pantling and Jago Strong-Wright-Smith will talk about their experiences of going into the field to test their methods.

To kick off the Centre for Climate Repair's Autumn Lecture Series, we have PhD students Edmund Reardon and Yashavi Raj from the Department of Engineering talking about their research and its implications for taking Marine Cloud Brightening out into the field. 

Quantitative Environmental Sciences (QES) is a course offered in the Natural Sciences Tripos at Cambridge for second year students. As part of the course, students make a policy paper, using an environmental data set that they need to present to answer a question. The policy paper is in the form of a modified POSTnote, which includes figures. We are holding a poster session and end of year party where many of our students will present their policy work and would love to discuss with you their approach

These events are part of the 2024 Cambridge Festival dedicated to school students (KS2 and KS3).

In this final lecture of the CCLS 2024, young people from Finland will discuss the topic of 1.5°C.

Join Harriet Lamb on this exciting talk and continue the conversation CCLS 2024: No 1.5 °C without climate intervention?

Join Prof Aoife Foley for this our first session of the CCLS 2024: No 1.5 °C without climate intervention?

The Cambridge Climate Lecture Series 2024 will take place during February and March 2024. We have a great line up of speakers to discuss the topic of climate intervention

The lecture will firstly summarise exactly where we are with climate change and crucially what the scientists are now considering in terms of the future. A future based purely on emissions reductions cannot keep the world below 1.5C.

We are attending COP28 in Dubai, UAE and hosting a number of events on different pavilions within the Blue Zone. Some of our team members are also taking part in different events throughout. Please see event details to access the full list.