ClimateWise, the global collaboration of leading insurers facilitated by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, has called on developed countries to agree to a 40% cut in emissions by 2020 at the UN climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December. The ClimateWise group also called on major developing countries to agree to substantial reductions relative to business as usual.
Two Cambridge students emerged winners of the International Inter-varsity Debating Competition, held last weekend by the Debating Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.
Expensive medical equipment is lying unused in Rwanda’s leading hospital because it costs too much to use it, a report by enterprising students has found.
Expensive medical equipment is lying unused in Rwanda's leading hospital because it costs too much to use it, a report by enterprising students has found.
A boiling cauldron of racial and economic discord, crisis and contention, yet simultaneously one of America’s most iconic, historic and fascinating cities.
University of Cambridge students are invited to bring their lives to film as part
of a new project for the 800th anniversary celebrations.
One of the world’s most eminent Islamic scholars will urge fellow Muslims to respect “the compassionate teachings of the true Islam” in a landmark lecture this evening (Wednesday, October 21st).
On Friday the newly-formed Afghanistan Cultural & Academic Studies Society (ACASS), based at St Edmund's College, will present its first ever event - a talk in which guest speaker Hamdullah Mohib will explore the challenges ordinary Afghan people face in 2009.
Lord Davies of Abersoch, Minister of State for Trade, Investment and Business, was in Cambridge to reward some of the Eastern region’s export heroes.
A distinguished theoretical physicist who pioneered String Theory has been elected the 18th holder of the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, succeeding Stephen Hawking, who stepped down as Lucasian Professor on 30 September.
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