Letters from CCS: Week 3
Welcome everyone to another letter of all things climate delivered straight to your inbox!💚
Join us for our Energy Research Presentation Night🚨Tomorrow! 🚨
🌍 Green officer / College Societies Campaigning Workshop — Thursday 12th @ 5:30pm
The Green Careers Festival has started! Events continue this week.
Talk on International Climate Policy, Youth and Intergenerational Justice at COP — Today @ 2pm
Get involved! We are recruiting external officers for CamCOP: Rooted
Launch of Cambridge Climate Week — March 16–21
And so much more! Keep on reading…
💚 Eleanor and the whole CCS committee
📅 Upcoming Events
Research Presentation Night on Energy & Climate — Wednesday 11th (TOMORROW!) February 6pm @ Emmanuel College
We would like to cordially invite you to our Research Presentation Night on Energy & Climate, taking place on Wednesday 11th of February at 6PM, organised by the Cambridge Climate Society.
The event will take place in the Queen’s Lecture Theatre at Emmanuel College and will be held in collaboration with the University of Cambridge Sustainability Society.
At Research Presentation Nights, researchers across disciplines present their work and discuss their journey. Everyone is welcome, especially if they are an early career researcher. This will be a great networking opportunity and a chance to meet people interested in climate research across the university.
Green Officer / College Societies Campaigning Workshop - Thursday 12th February 6pm @ Clare College
We are hosting a meeting for Green Officers, College-based environmental societies, OR any students interested in learning how to push their college towards making sustainable changes! This is open to total newcomers too (reach out to Shreya, sp2068, if you’ve not attended one of these before!).
This is a chance to build on the collaborative approaches many students are already working on, as well as learn from one another in terms of success stories. It’s also just a chance to get together in person and chat to / learn from likeminded, passionate students.
What: Green Officer / College Societies Workshop
When: Thursday 12th February, 5.30 - 7pm (possibly popping into Clare Cellars after!)
Where: Domus Room, Clare College Old Court (Trinity Lane)
🔗 Sign up here!
We will chat through a range of topics, covering ethical banking, setting up a “library of things”, transport policy, food waste, and collaboration for Cambridge Climate Week 2026 (March 16 - 20th) and any other college-based events across term.
(NOTE this event was due to take place last Wednesday, but had to be rescheduled to this coming Thursday 12th due to illness).
Best,
Shreya 🌱 (sp2068)
Talk on International Climate Policy, Youth and Intergenerational Justice at COP — Today 2pm @ Phoenix Room 2
Drawing on fieldwork at COP28 in Dubai and COP29 in Baku, this talk examines how youth navigate the structural barriers that constrain their influence in international climate negotiations. It considers practices such as youth -washing and tokenism, and how these shape the everyday realities of young people who act as key civil-society actors holding delegations to account. The talk also highlights the social dynamics of negotiation spaces and the inventive strategies marginalised groups use to resist exclusion and assert their presence.
Millie is a climate policy educator, youth engagement advocate and former SAN-POL student at Cambridge. Come hear her reflections on COP28&29 and her work on climate more broadly!
How Resilient is Cambridge? Reuse and the Circular Economy Event — Thursday 12th February 15pm @ Guildhall, Cambridge City Centre
What are the opportunities of a circular economy? 🌍 The second in our event series 'How Resilient is Cambridge?' takes a deep dive on Reuse and the Circularly Economy in our city:
👉 How Resilient is Cambridge? Reuse and the Circular Economy
📅 Thursday 12 February 2026, 5–7 pm (doors open 4.30 for networking)
📍 Guildhall, Cambridge city centre – and online
🎟️ Book your free ticket (in person or online)
There will be time for networking and stalls from local groups – if your organisation would like to share information, please get in touch.
Please bring your questions or submit them in advance if you can’t attend.
Cambridge Climate Challenge training session: What works in Climate Entrepreneurship and what doesn’t (with pizza!) — Thursday 12th Feb
This year's Postgraduate Climate Challenge competition has a final prize of £5,000. Attend training sessions to learn how to pitch a solution, and build a team with fellow postgrads and postdocs. The next session focusses on ‘What works and what doesn’t in Climate Entrepreneurship’, delivered by Carbon13 CEO Dr Nicky Dee (as seen in The Times). Enjoy Aromi pizza when you book a place for Thursday 12 February (5:30pm to 7pm), and join the WhatsApp group or mailing list to stay updated.
Seminar on Law and the Climate Crisis - Friday 13th February 4pm @ David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street
As part of the series, Dr Hao Zhang will talk about Energy Law and Climate Change Mitigation in China, with an opportunity for networking afterwards.
As the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, China must decarbonise its energy system to meet its ‘dual carbon goals’, i.e. peaking emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. A key challenge is integrating renewables into the grid, where regulations still favour coal power. This seminar analyses how China’s legal frameworks governing its power system shape renewable energy integration, assessing both progress and persistent barriers to achieving its climate targets.
ONGOING: Explore Jobs at the Green Careers Festival — 9–17 February 🌍
The Green Careers Festival is open to all students and postdocs, across all subjects (STEM & non-STEM). Organised with Cambridge Zero, the festival helps you explore careers in sustainability and environmental work.
Talks & panels throughout the week, including climate communication, greenwashing, sustainable food careers, and sustainability careers for non-STEM graduates.
👉 To see the full programme and register click here!
CASxCCS Sustainability Alumni Networking Panel & Dinner — Friday 27th February
We’re hosting a sustainability-focused panel and networking session with returning alumni, followed by a formal dinner together. Expect a lively discussion, good food and the chance to ask questions about what sustainability looks like in careers beyond university! 💼
Date: 27th February, 2026
Time: Welcome drinks from 5:40pm | Official start at 6:00 pm
Venue: Christ’s College, Cambridge CB2 3BU (formal dinner) Panel discussion and pre-dinner networking venue TBC
Cost: Free for students (generously supported by alumni)
Places may be limited; confirmations will be sent via email. Sign-up closes by 13 February!
🌍 CamCOP is recruiting new Cambridge members to join our team!
The Cambridge Climate Society is looking to recruit external officers for our flagship conference, CamCOP: Rooted, set to run on the 14th and 15th March 2026! This is a hugely exciting opportunity to get involved with running and shaping a major student summit on nature-based climate solutions, forging links across Cambridge (staff, researchers, students, professionals, townspeople...) and beyond. Based on the success of the previous iteration of CamCOP, we expect this edition to be very impactful.
We are opening applications for:
Funding & Partner Coordination: Helping to coordinate with our conference partners, ensure funding flows are properly maintained and allocated.
Logistics & Event Management: Helping with boots-on-the-ground logistics including event management, catering, technical support, and so on.
Publicity & Communications: Helping manage our audience outreach, event publicity, social media and communications.
The deadline for applying is 23:59 on Sunday 8th February, 2026. We may accept your application based on its written content or invite you for a brief chat to make sure we are aligned.
Please contact Kaden Pradhan (kp613@cam.ac.uk) with any queries.
💚 Cambridge Climate Week 2026
Welcome to Cambridge Climate Week 2026 – a city-wide mobilisation for climate action!
📅 Join us March 16–21.
🔗 All information, event registration, and free tickets here.
Join or host events today!
🌐 University of Cambridge Resilience Web
Climate and social justice work at the University of Cambridge is happening everywhere — across departments, research groups, student societies, institutions, and specialist teams. The Resilience Web brings all of this work together in one interactive, mappable directory.
The Resilience Web showcases groups working across areas such as policy & justice, energy & carbon, food & health and more.
🔗 Check out the Resilience Web here today!
The Resilience Web will be replacing the current societies directory on the CCS website.
🌍 Cambridge Journal of Climate Research
The Cambridge Journal of Climate Research is a diamond open-access, interdisciplinary journal encompassing all areas of climate-related research: from engineering and atmospheric science to law, demographics, politics, and art.
We are putting out a call for abstracts for our next issue:
Abstract Submission Deadline: 27 February
Notification of Acceptance: 5 March
Deadline for First Draft Submission: 15 March
🔗 Please submit using this form!
🌍 Read more about the journal here.
The Cambridge Journal of Climate Research brings together climate expertise from diverse fields in two packed issues every year - one in May and one in December. The journal is recruiting both Associate/Senior Editors to join the team for this calendar year (2026). If you think this is you, please do apply by 27 February 2026! We look forward to working with you!
Contact: cjcr.main@gmail.com for any questions.
📅 Final reminder for our calendar containing all of our events! Subscribe today!
A big well done if you made it this far… it really was a long on jampacked with incredible events and initiatives! Enjoy the rest of your week 💚