Dimitri Zenghelis is an economist whose research focusses on the macroeconomics of climate change. He is Special Adviser at the University of Cambridge’s Bennett Institute for Public Policy. Here, he describes his present research and the role that CSaP has played in the process.

A new report by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) argues the UK government should invest in green infrastructure now or watch productivity lag behind China, the United States and other countries already running away with the benefits.

On 17 October 2024, CISL co-hosted a COP29 panel discussion with Cambridge Zero Policy Forum at its Cambridge headquarters, the Entopia Building.

On 18 June, ahead of the election of the new Labour government, Nick Godfrey, Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Grantham Institute, chaired a panel at the CSaP Annual Conference at The Royal Society in London. The panel included Dimitri Zenghelis, Niva Thiruchelvum, and Anna Valero, who discussed whether green investment for the UK is really a growth strategy.

In March 2024, the Cambridge Zero Policy Forum met with Juan-Carlos Ciscar, Scientific Officer at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC), to discuss the challenges and opportunities in assessing climate and biodiversity risks.

In May 2024, the Cambridge Zero Policy Forum hosted a seminar with David Craig, Co-Chair of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and Advisory Council Member of the Sustainable Markets Initiative launched by His Majesty King Charles III.

This Cambridge Zero Policy Forum lunchtime seminar with Professor Tim Benton, Director of the Environment and Society Centre at Chatham House, focused on the challenges and opportunities facing the global food system in the context of the climate and biodiversity crises.

This Cambridge Zero Policy Forum workshop was aimed at guiding the development of a report for ministers and policy makers at His Majesty’s Treasury, asking: Is supporting green investment for the UK really a growth strategy?

In February 2024, Dr Jolyon Medlock, Head of Medical Entomology at the UK Health Security Agency, met with the Cambridge Zero Policy Forum to discuss ecological and environmental drivers of vector borne disease.

The roundtable on geopolitics of climate impacts and their implications for the UK’s foreign policies was hosted by Emily Shuckburgh, Director of Cambridge Zero, and Peter Hill, former Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister and CEO of COP26.