Research areas in include: waste & waste management, sustainable construction, material flows, climate repair, greenhouse gas removal, restoring damaged climate systems, natural resource use, environmental flows, pollutant emission, circularity, zero carbon transition pathways, atmospheric chemistry, air quality and climate modelling.
Some key centres and initiatives include:
- Cambridge Zero
- Centre for Climate Repair
- Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG)
- Cambridge Circular Plastics Centre
- Carbon Clarity in the Global Petrochemical Supply Chain (C-THRU)
- UK Fires
- Resource Efficiency Collective
Researchers working in this area:
| Prof Abir-Al-Tabbaa |
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering Member of the Energy IRC Steering Committee |
| Prof Alexander Archibald | Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry |
| Dr Claire Barlow |
Fellow Emerita Member of the Energy IRC Steering Committee |
| Prof Michael Bickle |
Professor of Tectonics |
| Prof Jonathan Cullen |
Professor of Sustainable Engineering Member of the Energy IRC Steering Committee |
| Prof Steve Evans |
Director of Research in Industrial Sustainability |
| Prof David Fairen-Jimenez |
Professor in Molecular Engineering |
| Dr Shaun Fitzgerald |
Director of Research in the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge Member of the Energy IRC Steering Committee |
| Prof Andrew Friend | Professor of Earth Systems Science |
| Prof Andreas Kontoleon | Professor of Law, Economics and Institutions |
| Prof Shaun Larcom | Professor of Environmental Economics and Public Policy |
| Dr Jie Li | University Associate Professor |
| Prof Dongfang Liang | Professor of Hydrodynamics |
| Prof Paul Linden | Director of Research |
| Prof Jerome Neufeld | Professor of Earth and Planetary Fluid Dynamics |
| Prof Geoff Parks | Professor of Nuclear Engineering |
| Prof Gareth Rees | Professor of Polar Geoinformatics |
| Prof Alan Short | Professor of Architecture (1970) |
| Prof Emily Shuckburgh | Professor of Environmental Data Science and Director of Cambridge Zero |
| Prof Nedunchezhian Swaminathan | Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| Prof Jorge E. Viñuales | Professor of Law and Environmental Policy |
| Prof Paul Warde |
Professor of Environmental History Member of the Energy IRC Steering Committee |
| Prof Andy Woods | BP Professor |