Detailed information on climate change activities can be found at the Cambridge Climate site.
Centres of Research and Engagement in Sustainable Cambridge
Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research: Sustainability linked to climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies
Centre for Sustainable Development: All aspects of the engineering of sustainable solutions to water, energy and other needs
Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership: Increasing awareness of, and commitment to, sustainability in the world's leading corporations
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Tackling all issues related to conservation of natural resources, ecosystems and biodiversity
Department of Land Economy: Bringing sustainable governance to the management of land in developed and developing nations
Energy Efficient Cities Initiative: Design, construction and operation of cities to reflect the principles of sustainability
Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment: A full-service research centre brining forward engineering innovations for a more sustainable built environment
Energy(at)Cambridge: Tackles grand technical and intellectual challenges in the generation, distribution and use of energy
Martin Centre: Designing cities, transport and buildings through architecture and urban studies, through design, realisation and assessment
Sustainable Manufacturing Group: Developing technologies to transform materials without emission of greenhouse gases, use of non-renewable materials or generation of waste
History and Sustainability: Using environmental history and education to further the goals of sustainable development
Society, Environment and Development: Exploring issues of governance, institutions and sustainability, with research on Society and Environment, Political Ecology, Society and Development
BP Institute: Examines problems of multiphase flow, with projects in Natural Ventilation and Heat Flow and the Fluid Dynamics of Carbon Sequestration
Education for Sustainability
MPhil in Conservation Leadership through the Department of Geography
MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development through the Department of Engineering
MSt in Sustainability Leadership through the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership
MPhil in Environmental Policy through the Department of Land Economy
MPhil in Planning, Growth and Regeneration in the Department of Land Economy
Sustainability Leadership in the Built Environment through the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership
Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment through the Departments of Architecture and Engineering
MPhil in Environment, Society and Development through the Department of Geography
Student Programmes
GreenBRIDGE: An interdisciplinary society of graduate researchers at the University of Cambridge interested in the sustainability of the built environment
Zero Carbon Society: Putting forward a vision of a prosperous economy that does not contribute to dangerous climate change
Cambridge University Environmental Consulting Society: Helping organisations and individuals (primarily within Cambridge) to alter their practices in cost-effective, efficient and environmentally sound ways
Summer Programme in International Energy Policy and Climate Change: A collaboration with the Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Special Projects
Climate Change Risk Mitigation Project: Bringing community-scale improvements to the built environment to meet ambitious national targets on energy and carbon reduction
Living Laboratory for Sustainability: Bringing the principles of sustainability into every part of University of Cambridge operations
Energy and Carbon Reduction Project: Reducing energy use and carbon emissions in the University of Cambridge estate, with pilot projects
BP Foreseer: A Future Resource Project funded by BP to analyse coupled resource systems, with particular reference to interlinking pathways of water, energy and land use
EECE: The Embodied Energy and Carbon in Buildings project to develop a methodology and knowledge database to calculate whole life embodied energy and carbon (EE/EC) of buildings
