Letters from CCS: Week 5
Woah! We’re halfway there! Whilst week 5 is looming upon us hopefully this letter of events can lift your week 5 blues!🌍💚
Reminder! COP30 starts Monday 10th November with daily updates available here 🔗 Also, follow our Instagram for insights & highlights🌍
Seminar on Law and Climate Crisis this Friday 4pm @ David Attenborough Building 💬
Cambridge forum on corporate climate governance launch panel on Monday 10th November, 2pm online 🗣️
Want to get involved with CCS? Rolling applications open now!! 🎉
Applications open to join the Climate League of Oxford and Cambridge 🎓
And so much more! Keep on reading…
💚 Eleanor and the whole CCS committee
📅 Upcoming Events
Seminar on Law and the Climate Crisis - Friday 7th November 4pm @ David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street
As part of the Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis 2025/26, Professor Ernest Lim (National University of Singapore) will talk about corporate law and climate change, with an opportunity for networking afterwards.
This presentation explores the external dimension of directors’ duties—whether directors may address climate impacts and other externalities even absent shareholder financial benefits—in contrast to the shareholder‑value focus. Its significance stems from universal investors, the EU due‑diligence regime, and high‑emitting SOEs. Lim examines three arguments: UK nature clauses are constrained by shareholder primacy; US shareholder‑preference claims are undermined by financially driven activism; and SOE directors’ duties can align with state ownership (as shown in China).
Crop Breeding Technologies Talk - Friday 7th November 7pm @ Homerton College
Homerton College Science Society is thrilled to be hosting Dr Natasha Yelina, Head of Crop Breeding Technologies Group from the Crop Science Centre!
Join us this Friday to hear about Dr Natasha Yelina’s work studying plant meiosis - in particular the mechanisms of recombination control and the role of epigenetic marks in shaping crossover frequency landscapes along chromosomes - and how this can be used to control meiotic recombination and to shape new technologies to accelerate crop breeding.
This talk is open to everyone, and refreshments will be provided! Please find the poster for the event attached.
📍 Paston Brown Room, Homerton College
📅 Friday 7th November, 7pm
Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance - Monday 10th November 2pm @ Online
On Monday 10th November 2025, Cambridge University Press (CUP) and the Centre for Climate Engagement (CCE) will host an online panel and roundtable discussion to mark the launch of the new open access journal, the Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance.
The journal will connect interdisciplinary insights with practical perspectives, bridging academia, policy, and practice. Published by Cambridge University Press with the Centre for Climate Engagement at Hughes Hall, it will advance understanding and solutions in climate finance and governance.
Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance will take a themed-issue approach, with future issues covering material topics including Climate Finance, Global Trade, Nature & Biodiversity, Human Rights, Family-Owned Businesses, European Regulation and its Global Impacts, New Business Models and Cognitive Diversity in the Boardroom.
The event is open to all, and we warmly encourage anyone with an interest in corporate climate governance to sign up and take part in the discussions. It will take place online from 9 – 10am ET (2 – 3pm BST). Join us though the free registration link here.
🎥🌊 Ocean (2025) film showing St. John’s Picturehouse x One Health Soc - Sunday 16th November 7pm @ Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St. John’s College
David Attenborough explores the planet’s undersea habitats, revealing the greatest age of ocean discovery and emphasising the ocean’s vital importance while exposing its problems and highlighting opportunities for marine life recovery.
Open to all Students and Staff at the University of Cambridge and ARU.
Screening are in the Palmerston Room, Fisher Building in St John’s College. If you are unsure how to find us, the porters can provide you with directions.
See here for ticket details. 🎥
Save the date! Good COP, bad COP: Reflections on COP30 - Monday 1st December 1pm @ Dr Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Good COP, Bad COP is back! We’re bringing together an expert panel to discuss the highs and the lows of the world’s biggest climate conference.
After the 30th “Conference of the Parties” (COP), we’ll ask: what really happened? What was agreed, and what was left unspoken? And after all these years, what do we do next?
Prof Piers Forster, former interim chair of the UK’s Climate Change Committee, will be joined by:
Dr Natalie Jones, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Dr Joanna Depledge, Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance
Prof Emily Shuckburgh, Chief Scientific Adviser of DESNZ
The event will be chaired by the Centre for Climate Repair’s Prof Jerome Neufeld.
Join us at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge to have your questions answered. Refreshments will be provided afterwards.
🌍 COP30 Updates
COP30 is the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Belém, Brazil from 10 to 21 November 2025.
UN Climate Change Conferences (or COPs) take place every year, and are the world’s only multilateral decision-making forum on climate change that brings together almost every country on Earth.
To put it simply, the COP is where the world comes together to agree on the actions to address the climate crisis, such as limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, helping vulnerable communities adapt to the effects of climate change, and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
COP30 will bring together world leaders and negotiators from the member states (or Parties) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to further global progress, with business leaders, young people, climate scientists, Indigenous Peoples, and civil society sharing insights and best practices to strengthen global, collective and inclusive climate action.
You can stay up to date with COP with the following links.
CCS will be uploading insights and highlights on our Instagram so follow us there too!
💚 Join the CCS Committee NOW!
The Cambridge Climate Society is looking to recruit its new student committee for the 2025/26 academic year! This is a hugely exciting opportunity to get involved with running and shaping an impactful student organisation, forging links across Cambridge and beyond.
Before you get started, make sure to check out our Application Pack 25/26 with detailed information on each role available.
There is no deadline for applications, as we are assessing them on a rolling basis. You can expect to hear back from us within two weeks. Terms for engagement will be mutually defined when starting the role and may either be until the end of the academic or calendar year.
Please reach out to Niklas (ngt30, President), Kaden (kp613, Vice-President) and Lea (lm2037, Vice-President) with any queries!
Apply here! We really look forward to reading your responses and meeting you soon!
🎓 Climate League of Oxford and Cambridge applications open
CLOC (Climate League of Oxford and Cambridge) - applications are open to join the team!
A new team is being recruited to run the Climate League of Oxford and Cambridge (CLOC) this year! CLOC is a student-led analysis and ranking of Oxbridge colleges based on their environmental policies and is key to keeping colleges accountable. If you might want to get involved, or just to learn more, please fill out this form! Deadline: 30th November.
Find our website and previous materials here.
Big well done🎉 if you’ve made it this far! We hope everyone makes it past those pesky week 5 blues… see you soon 💚