The 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.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stephen J Toope, kicks off a global day of action with a discussion on the University’s efforts to tackle climate change.
A plan to build a global network of STEM ambassadors to encourage women and girls into science, put forward by a Cambridge academic to the United Nations, will be discussed at the UNSPACE+50 event this week.
“I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy”.
Evidence provided by the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre informs the findings of a cross-party report calling for “significant spending” on early-years education
Research 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 Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz conferred an honorary degree on His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of The United Nations, in the Senate House earlier today.
University’s highest honour conferred for ‘humanitarian work, support for women’s rights and achievements in pursuit of global peace and security’.
University of Cambridge joins Universities across the UK and France for inaugural #GetFree Tour.
Researchers say that the first study to attempt to gauge global visitation figures for protected areas reveals nature-based tourism has an economic value of hundreds of billions of dollars annually, and call for much greater investment in the conservation of protected areas in line with the values they sustain – both economically and ecologically.
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