Letters from CCS: Week 6
🚨It’s COP30 everybody 🚨 Happy week 6 one and all… hang in there, not long left now 💚
Reminder! COP30 has begun! Daily updates available here 🔗 Also, follow our Instagram for insights & highlights💬 (Our very own president is on route too 🌍)
Seminar: How does contract law & climate intersect? Find out this Friday 4pm @ David Attenborough Building ⚖️
🌊 Ocean (2025) film screening - Sunday 7pm @ St Johns’ College
Scaling Climate Tech Panel - Thursday 20th 5:30pm @ Queens’ College ⚡
Want to get involved with CCS? Rolling applications are still open🎉
And so much more! Keep on reading…
💚 Eleanor and the whole CCS committee
📅 Upcoming Events
Reproduction & Sustainability: Cambridge Research Showcase - Thursday 13th November 11am @ Newton Room, Pitt Building
A showcase of Cambridge research, and opportunity for active community-building, at the far-ranging intersections between reproduction and sustainability, at all scales.
Speakers include: Dr Chantal Babb de Villiers, Prof Romola Davenport, Dr Heather McMullen, Dr Shobhana Nagraj, Dr Katie Dow and Dr Kim van Daalen.
Join the waitlist for any last minute tickets available!
Seminar on Law and the Climate Crisis - Friday 14th November 4pm @ David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street
In the final event of the term for this year’s Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis, Matthew Gingell will explain how contracts can play a role in addressing climate change. Come to the David Attenborough Building on 14th November to join the seminar and stay for free drinks and networking afterwards, or join online via Zoom.
What do contract lawyers do? Commercial lawyers may seem far from climate action, but Matthew Gingell reveals they hold the keys. Contracts govern nearly all economic transactions and shape how solutions cross borders. In this talk, he reframes contracts as the invisible infrastructure accelerating delivery of climate action on the ground.
Matthew Gingell is the General Counsel of The Oxygen House Group, Founder of The Chancery Lane Project and a member of the Law Society Climate Change Committee.
Further information and sign up 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. 🎥
Scaling Climate Tech Panel Discussion - Thursday 20th November 5:30pm @ Old Hall, Queens’ College ⚡
Hosted by the Cambridge University Energy Technology Society and the Queens’ Entrepreneurship Society. Enter via Queens’ College Porters’ Lodge and follow signs to Old Hall (across the river).
What are the key bottlenecks when scaling climate tech startups? What are the different financing mechanisms? How does the Cambridge ecosystem compare to the rest of the UK and abroad? Should we scale in the UK or should we offshore production? What is the role of the UK government in supporting spinouts and ensuring that the UK captures value?
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.
Knowledge for Sustainable Development 2025 Conference - Tuesday 9th December 8:30am @ Online 🛜
Welcome to this interdisciplinary research conference on Breaking barriers to climate solutions. The conference aims to encourage knowledge sharing and dialogue between Lund University and the University of Cambridge.
Target group: Researchers associated with Lund University and University of Cambridge, as well as other researchers, stakeholders, and students who wish to join the discussions and share their views are invited to learn more about research conducted at Lund University and University of Cambridge.
Please see the following links for further information 🔗(Deadline for sign-ups 27th November)
🌍 COP30 Updates
COP30 is the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Belém, Brazil from 10th to 21st 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! Our own president will be on the ground and writing updates too so stay tuned 💬
💚 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!
Big well done if you’ve made it this far!🎉 We hope you have a good week and we are all looking forward to what COP30 holds. See you next time 💚