CISL appoints Lindsay Hooper permanent CEO
02 December 2024The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership announces it has appointed Lindsay Hooper its permanent CEO and Head of Department.
A radical economic transformation is the only way to save nature and ourselves
04 November 2024After two weeks of negotiations last week in Cali, Colombia, the COP16 biodiversity summit was suspended with no overall agreement on a path forward on “resource mobilisation."
Wild horses
09 October 2024Meet the team reintroducing large herbivores to the coldest place in Spain.
What does it take to make a better battery?
01 October 2024Cambridge researchers are working to solve one of technology’s biggest puzzles: how to build next-generation batteries that could power a green revolution.
Building a more sustainable world
19 September 2024This longstanding partnership between Cambridge, Arup and the Ove Arup Foundation has made our world safer and more sustainable and changed the way professionals are taught.
Sowing seeds for sustainability
17 July 2024Finding homes for used toasters, recycling batteries and inspiring a fondness for secondhand fashion are just three of the sustainability challenges Cambridge students addressed in the 2024 Easter term edition of the Engage for Change project.
Echion Technologies secures £29 million to help commercialise its sustainable battery technology
19 June 2024Cambridge spinout, Echion Technologies has raised £29 million in investment capital to help it increase the production of its fast-charging, long-life battery material based on niobium.
Fish fed to farmed salmon should be part of our diet, too, study suggests
20 March 2024The public are being encouraged to eat more wild fish, such as mackerel, anchovies and herring, which are often used within farmed salmon feeds. These oily fish contain essential nutrients including calcium, B12 and omega-3 but some are lost from our diets when we just eat the salmon fillet.
Three Cambridge researchers awarded Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies
14 March 2024Three Cambridge researchers – Professors Manish Chhowalla, Nic Lane and Erwin Reisner – have each been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies, to develop emerging technologies with high potential to deliver economic and social benefits to the UK.
Shimmering seaweeds and algae antennae: sustainable energy solutions under the sea
22 February 2024How could tiny antennae attached to tiny algae speed up the transition away from fossil fuels? This is one of the questions being studied by Cambridge researchers as they search for new ways to decarbonise our energy supply, and improve the sustainability of harmful materials such as paints and dyes.
