Christ's College Climate Seminars

The Christ's College Climate Seminar Series was established in 2014 thanks to a donation from Charles Kennel, Honarary Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. Each series of seminars considers aspects of climate-related research and developments that are likely to have significant implications for climate policy.

Details of seminars can be seen by clicking on the links below

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2023 - Climate Change: practical politics for the 2020s: The 2023 Christ's College Climate Seminar Series will focus on the big questions facing UK policy makers as they seek to accelerate action on climate change in the face of geopolitical challenges.

2022 - Climate change and sustainability after Glasgow: Following the COP 26 conference in Glasgow in November 2021, we hosted a series of seminars to explore challenges facing policymakers working to make the UK more sustainable and achieve its 2050 net zero target.

2021 - Achieving change for population and planetary health post pandemic: This series examined ways in which effective action against population and planetary threats might be achieved through a focus on framing, public participation, and an appreciation of place.

2020 - UK policy in the lead up to COP26

2019 - How business is learning to cooperate in pursuit of climate action

2017 - In it for the long run: What institutional arrangements, knowledge and politics are required to tackle climate change in the coming decades?

2015 - Climate and sustainability in multiple dimensions: The series explored the cultural framings of climate change to ask whether human understanding of global warming has affected our response to climate change.

2014 - Adaptation to climate change: Avoid the Unmanageable, Manage the Unavoidable: What can we expect from the climate in the coming decades, and what might we do?

Past events

Our workshops, seminars, lectures and annual conference provide a platform for policy professionals and researchers to discuss and debate high-priority public policy issues.

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