Wishing all undergrads the best for their exams - do try to enjoy the sun when it does fight its way through to us!
We just have one event to advertise this week (why not beat the afternoon slump with a one-hour talk this Wednesday?), plus one external advertisement.
💜 from Shreya and the rest of the CCS Committee
📅 Upcoming Events
Wednesday June 6th, 5 – 6pm, @Bradfield Room, Darwin College: Discussion with Global Witness on their COP29 campaign: Kick Big Polluters Out. Sign-up here!
Global Witness is an investigative, campaigning organisation, exposing how the industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction.
Their most infamous campaign to date revealed how Azerbaijan, the petrostate who hosted COP29 last November 2024, used its to facilitate secret discussions of new fossil fuel deals. Their findings made front page news. Delve into how they design their campaigns at this event on Wednesday 4/6!
📰 University Notice
University Notice: Environmental Sustainability Reporting for 2023/24 and new Environmental Sustainability website
The University has now launched its refreshed Environmental Sustainability (ES) website, including the latest reporting metrics (2023-24) on the environmental performance of the University estate. For the first time the website will be updated on an ongoing basis as new content and data become available, rather than only reporting on the previous academic year.
On the website, you’ll find the University’s commitments for each operational area - Carbon and energy, Travel and transport, Waste and circular economy, Biodiversity, and Water – as well as the approach to delivery.
Dedicated Our progress pages contain brand new data, graphs and analysis, along with a new Case studies feature. The key drivers were to make information more transparent and accessible. Queries to sustainability@admin.cam.ac.uk
📚 External Programmes
European Centre for Populism Studies, free virtual Summer School, applications close 16/06. See poster and this link for more details.
The 2025 ECPS Summer School will be held online between Monday and Friday on the second week of July, 7- 11 July 2025. It will question how populism shapes climate change narratives and policies. It aims to provide a platform for exploring diverse political ideologies and their implications for climate action. It also seeks to foster a deeper understanding of the tension between economic, political, and environmental interests across the political spectrum, including both right-wing and left-wing populist movements.
Normally, it is open to master’s and Ph.D.-level students, postdocs and early career researchers from any discipline. In exceptional cases, undergraduate students are also welcome.
The program will take place on Zoom, consisting of two sessions each day. The lectures will be followed by small group discussions and Q&A sessions moderated by experts in the field.
Each day (7-11 July), there will be two sessions (on Zoom). Each session contains;
- A lecture (40 minutes): The moderator introduces the speaker, and then lecture starts. (Lectures will be recorded unless preferred otherwise).
- Small-group discussions (20 minutes): After the lecture, participants are divided into small groups to discuss the topic and prepare questions.
- Discussion and Q&A (30 minutes): All participants convene again and meet with the speaker for a general discussion and Q&A. The Moderator manages the discussion.
The Summer School will also have a Case Competition. It aims to equip attendees with the skills necessary to craft policy suggestions. The Case Competition will discuss solutions to the climate change crisis. Participants will be divided into small groups and convene daily on Zoom to work on a specific problem related to populism and climate change. Each group will present their policy suggestions on the programme's final day. A panel of scholars will provide feedback on these policy suggestions. The groups are encouraged to publish their presentations as policy papers on the ECPS website.