Prioritising social and economic objectives alongside environmental concerns is crucial in forest management, says Cambridge researcher at the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
Many homes with poor energy efficiency are actually consuming far less energy than predicted, new research has found. The study has implications for national energy-saving policies and the economic viability of thermal retrofit programmes.
Innovative approaches for protecting the future of Sierra Leone’s Gola Forest – globally important for its biodiversity and its carbon reserves – are being developed by a collaboration of conservation agencies and University of Cambridge researchers.
New data obtained by researchers shows that electrical energy consumption in England's schools has gone up, even as heating demand has fallen, with academies consistently using more energy than other institutions.
A method which more than halves the temperature at which high-quality graphene can be produced has been pioneered by researchers.
The presence of even a simple chemical reaction can delay or prevent the spreading of stored carbon dioxide in underground aquifers, new research from the University of Cambridge has revealed.
Cambridge is to lead the technology roadmap towards a €1 billion European programme to conduct research on graphene - a versatile substance, stronger than diamond, which researchers say could trigger a “smart and sustainable carbon revolution”.
The Electricity Policy Research Group – a programme that spans the Faculty of Economics and Judge Business School – is providing world-class analysis to support an evolving electricity industry.
The 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".
A remarkable light-emitting material, gallium nitride, could slash electricity consumption, purify water and kill superbugs.
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