Cambridge Zero

A bold response to the world’s greatest challenge, Cambridge Zero is a major interdisciplinary initiative focused on the transition to a zero-carbon future, bringing together the best of Cambridge in people, research, and knowledge exchange.
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Cambridge Zero (CZ) exists to maximise the University of Cambridge’s contribution towards achieving a resilient and sustainable zero-carbon world. We are harnessing the full depth and breadth of the Collegiate University’s capabilities—locally, nationally and globally—to develop solutions that work for all the ways we live and work, and for our planet and its biodiversity. 

Climate Repair 

Through the Centre for Climate Repair, our research focuses on three commitment areas: Deep and rapid emissions reductions, Greenhouse gas removal, and Restoring broken climate systems. 

We are developing innovative solutions to sequester and store CO2 through carbon capture and storage, nature-based solutions and chemical looping; and exploring the legal, ethical, socio-economic and technological dimensions of climate repair and negative emissions technologies. 

These are ‘wicked problems’: complex, intertwined, with multiple layers and competing stakeholders on a fast-changing landscape.  They are problems that defy a quick fix—in fact, they appear intractable. At Cambridge Zero, we believe they are possible to solve.  

Landscape Regeneration 

Embedded in CZ and part of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, the Centre for Landscape Regeneration seeks to provide knowledge and tools to regenerate the British countryside. How? By using cost-effective nature-based solutions that harness the power of ecosystems to provide broad societal benefits, including biodiversity recovery as well as climate mitigation and adaptation. 

Our researchers work closely with farmers, landowners, conservation groups, policy makers and local communities to address ecological threats such as extinction, flooding, drought and pollution, with an emphasis on whole-system approaches and a holistic, long-term view that encompasses the ecology of a region. 

Implementing sustainable landscapes at meaningful scales is challenging, and progress remains uncertain. With the resources to engage fully with all stakeholders and opportunities, we are determined to explore and deconstruct the financial, institutional, and social barriers that can obstruct transformative change.  

In all our work, our vision is clear: that a resilient and sustainable zero-carbon world is attainable.

There is still hope if we all — every single one of us — take our share of responsibility for the future of life on Earth. And that is why Cambridge Zero is so important.
Sir David Attenborough

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