Policies for People and Planet
06 December 2023Cambridge Zero symposium gathers researchers to examine the rules and incentives needed to combat climate change.
Seeking climate justice at the 'world court'
29 March 2023How a Cambridge professor helped the climate-embattled nation of Vanuatu put the question of global warming to the International Court of Justice for the first time in history.
Russian attempts to invoke international law dismantled
09 March 2022Professor Marc Weller, a leading expert in international law and advisor on a large number of peace negotiations, debunks in turn Russia’s attempts to invoke international law.
Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge and UN economists
15 December 2020The University helps the United Nations launch a new 'Ecosystem Accounting' framework: allowing governments to better include and reflect nature in their post-pandemic economic recovery.
Human rights of people with autism not being met, leading expert tells United Nations
31 March 2017The basic human rights of autistic people are not being met, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, a world expert on autism, told the United Nations in New York today, to mark Autism Awareness Week.
When ideas of peace meet politics of conflict
15 February 2017Research by an expert in peacebuilding shows how international ideas, practices and language of conflict resolution are transformed when they meet African “realities and politics on the ground”.
The war that fed itself - and the hollow democracy it left behind
14 October 2015A new study using extensive eyewitness accounts re-examines the causes and legacy of Angola's brutal 27-year civil war, once described by the United Nations as "the worst war in the world".
Ethical dilemmas and global health
15 May 2012Sociologists David Stuckler and Sridhar Venkatapuram discuss how tensions within society are slowing down the process of combating disease worldwide.
Business leaders call for ambitious global deal on climate change
22 September 2009The business leaders of over 500 companies from around the world will this morning publish The Copenhagen Communiqué calling on world leaders to agree "an ambitious, robust and equitable global deal on climate change that responds credibly to the scale and urgency of the crisis facing the world today".
