Past events

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).