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Study analyses major carbon offset projects, and finds that – of a potential 89 million credits – only 5.4 million (6%) were linked to additional carbon reductions through tree conservation. The majority of carbon offset schemes are significantly overestimating the levels of deforestation they are preventing, according to...

Climate change is the greatest challenge of our age. The impacts of climate change are now being felt in every region of the planet. Solutions are being developed at Cambridge that can be implemented, grown to scale, and used to accelerate the rapid transition to a net zero and then zero emissions economy. In this series...

The University contributes nearly £30 billion to the UK economy and supports more than 86,000 jobs across the UK. A report by London Economics has measured the University of Cambridge’s impact on the UK economy in 2020-21. London Economics, one of Europe’s leading specialist economics and policy consultancies, was...

Today’s global challenges are complex and no one discipline holds all the answers. To address them academics have to be able to collaborate, be open to learning from across disciplinary boundaries and to break down the barriers between academia and the world of policy and practice. Gates Cambridge Scholars are selected not...