CUEN aims to cultivate a passion for energy through an annual conference in June 2021. Our members span many faculties including the Department of Engineering and the Judge Business School. We believe energy is fundamental to our quality of life and have many projects on our horizon that encourage hands-on learning and energy literacy.

University of Cambridge’s interdisciplinary research centre focussed on driving the energy transition away from fossil fuels. We support and link up over 250 Cambridge academics through a range of initiatives aimed at accelerating the transition to a zero-carbon world.

The Cambridge Circular Plastics Centre (CirPlas) is one of eight UK centres set up to find solutions to the problem of plastic waste.

CambPlants Hub operates as an umbrella connecting a number of existing initiatives and acts as a gateway for leadership companies, policy makers and the public to access Cambridge expertise in Plant Sciences, instigating research collaborations, outreach, skills development and networking activities.

Our mission is to serve our 1500+ members by connecting them with both the consulting industry and local action efforts, helping transform the city of Cambridge and giving our members a helping hand in their efforts to change the world for the better.

This year’s Cambridge Climate and Sustainability Forum, ‘Sustainability in Action’, explores the ways in which change can be enacted at each level of society, examining how individual, community-led and governmental efforts can contribute towards a brighter future.

Volunteers cooking free takeaway meals made from surplus food for the community every Saturday from 12:30-1:30pm

We offer university students an opportunity to develop their employability skills through volunteering. Our students actively contribute towards tackling social and environmental issues in the Cambridge community.

The Ethical Affairs campaign at CUSU aims to increase the awareness of social and environmental issues around campus and help student campaigns.

Cambridge Climate Justice campaigns to cut all ties with the fossil fuel industry with a focus on holding the University to account. It is a grassroots movement that strives to be anti-hierarchical in all we do.

We are a non-violent direct action movement demanding urgent action in the face of a climate emergency.

We are a society dedicated to protecting the marine environment. We will do everything possible to ensure this both locally and outside of Cambridge.

Wildlife conservation support and initiatives from Cambridge University Wildlife Conservation Society. Organisational Member of the CCF.

Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Cambridge is the local arm of EWB UK, a charity that leads a movement to inspire, enable and influence global responsibility through engineering.

based at Newnham College, organises sustainability campaigns at Newnham and events that are open to anyone at the University

We speak up for the animals who suffer at the hands of the animal agriculture industries, as well for our Earth, which is also a victim of the aforementioned industries.

Real food, without the rubbish. Literally. Cambridge Uni student-run, zero waste shop coming to a college near you..

The Centre for Global Equality (CGE) evolves innovative solutions to global challenges. Bringing together collaborators from civil society, academia, government and business, we mobilise intellectual, financial and social resources and focus these on the interests of the four billion people in the world who live on less than $4 a day.

​We take a holistic approach to tackling the key development issues in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, by piloting innovative, community-driven projects.

Homerton-wide and Cambridge-wide environmental events, lectures, campaigns and tips

We're a group of Clare students dedicated to spreading tips, news and events related to helping Clare College improve its environmental impact and cut energy use. Please feel free to post anything relevant here and spread the word!

Student Switch Off (SSO) is a sustainability campaign and competition run in Cambridge colleges. The campaign supports and encourages students living in colleges to save energy and water, as well as reduce waste and recycle.

KCL EcoSoc is a student run society dedicated to providing opportunities to learn about green issues and campaign for change. It is free to join and open to all students who are passionate about the environment.

We are a group dedicated to campaigning for Christ's College to commit to full divestment from fossil fuels.

The Hughes Hall Centre for Climate Change Engagement was established to increase awareness of climate change mitigation and adaptation on the boards of private companies and the need for urgent action.

The Green Society of Wolfson College enables members to enact change within the College, engage in much needed Green-conversations and to be proactive conscientious members of their local community.

Green Impact is the University's environmental accreditation scheme. It supports and encourages departments and colleges across the University in reducing their environmental impacts.

The Smart Cambridge team is working together with a wide range of technology businesses to provide a 'digital' platform to support the transport infrastructure investments taking place in our region.

At the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance we study alternative finance, including financial channels and instruments that emerge outside of the traditional financial system.

The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is a globally influential Institute developing leadership and solutions for a sustainable economy.

The Centre bridges the worlds of business, finance and policymaking in order to enable the transition to a sustainable economy, facilitating stronger mutual understanding between financial institutions, their clients in the real economy and the institutions which govern them.

The Institute supports multidisciplinary research on biodiversity conservation and social context within which humans engage with nature. It works from a base in the David Attenborough Building, which is designed to enhance collaboration and the sharing of perspectives across organisational and disciplinary boundaries.

Nuclear Energy Center at Cambridge University focused on nuclear research and initiatives.

The Energy Efficient Cities initiative [EECi] is a cross-disciplinary research project at the University of Cambridge. The EECi aims to strengthen the UK's capacity to address energy demand reduction and environmental impact in cities, by research in building and transport technologies, district power systems, and urban planning.

We are dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks that could lead to human extinction or civilisational collapse

The Cambridge Centre for Climate Science (CCfCS) has been established to promote research and other activities in Climate Science going on at several Departments of the University of Cambridge (Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Archaeology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Geography, Plant Sciences and Scott Polar Research Institute) and at the British Antarctic Survey.

The Department of Earth Sciences offers world-leading education and carries out innovative and ground-breaking research, using excellent facilities in a dynamic, welcoming and inclusive environment.

The ‘Living Lab’ provides opportunities for Cambridge students to improve environmental sustainability on the University estate through projects, internships and research.

Cambridge Global Food Security is a virtual centre at the University of Cambridge. We promote an interdisciplinary approach to addressing the challenge of ensuring all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and preferences for an active and healthy life.

The Cambridge Food Security Forum is an interdisciplinary network of PhD students and early career researchers at the University of Cambridge. It aims to promote interdisciplinary discussion amongst researchers, community groups and all who are interested in achieving a sustainable food system.

An edible garden project at Murray Edwards College in Cambridge for students, University staff & the local community. All are welcome!

The Cambridge Conservation Internship Scheme provides an opportunity for undergraduates to experience professional life in the global conservation community. There are currently six internships places available. Each year the scheme receives 30-40 applications.

The Cambridge Food Hub is an innovative food distribution system for the Cambridge area, aiming to increase the accessibility of sustainable food whilst supporting local producers and small businesses. The Food Hub project is also working towards a visionary centre for all aspects of food: from production and consumption to education and research.

We're the only veg box delivery service who collects produce from lots of organic farms in the local area. We pack our veg boxes in Haslingfield just outside of Cambridge, and deliver them to homes in Cambridge and the villages and surrounding towns.

Raising awareness of climate change issues and supporting people in the move to low-carbon living

Carbon Neutral Cambridge is a not-for-profit community based organisation, focussed on accelerating the transition to fair and healthy carbon neutrality within the Greater Cambridge region.

Cambridge Conservation Volunteers have been providing practical help to nature reserves in and around Cambridge since 1962. A lot of the work we do is maintaining habitats for wildlife.

The Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) is a unique collaboration between the University of Cambridge and leading internationally-focused biodiversity conservation organisations based in and around Cambridge, UK.

The initiative brings together the largest group of conservation researchers and practitioners in the world and enables them to work together more effectively across a range of conservation activities, from research and education to policy and on the ground action.

Learn to make change happen through effective and transformative engagement with others.

The Centre will focus on sustainability, equity and climate adaptability in global agriculture. The Centre uses the foundational knowledge of plants to drive transformative change in agriculture.

Research programmes that explore basic science which can generate the new technologies and new industries that will be needed to meet the demands of a growing population on our already strained natural resources.

CamBridgeSens is the interdisciplinary network for students, researchers and academics interested in sensor research and their applications. CamBridgeSens connects sensor technologies, middleware and applications and provides an interface between academic and industrial research. Our members have backgrounds in the physical and biological sciences, technology, medical research and social sciences.

The climate group uses a range of archives and proxies to document past climate change. The aim is to elucidate the processes governing climate change, providing empirical evidence to test theories and models, including those used to predict future climate change.

The Centre for Sustainable Development in the Cambridge University Engineering Department was established in 2000, following support provided by the Royal Academy of Engineering, to introduce concepts of sustainability over all our undergraduate engineering courses.

The Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, acts as a platform for research and engagement with social innovators, academia and policy in UK and across the world. Its primary focus is to understand, promote, and engage with social innovators and create and support social ventures and projects.

The Centre for Risk Studies provides frameworks for recognising, assessing and managing the impacts of systemic threats. The research programme is concerned with catastrophes and how their impacts ripple across an increasingly connected world with consequent effects on the international economy, financial markets, firms in the financial sectors and global corporations.

Read moreat: About the Department of Land Economy About the Department of Land Economy The Department of Land Economy is a leading international centre, providing a full programme of taught courses within an intensive, research-oriented environment.

Opportunity to learn about carbon literacy. Interactive and self taught modules about carbon and climate change.

The Cambridge Carbon Challenge is an initiative for student and staff teams to develop and present their ideas for cutting carbon emissions using gamifying approaches.

As this agenda is so broad, every individual working or studying at the University has a role to play in taking action to reduce their environmental impact during their time at Cambridge; that’s the Cambridge Green Challenge.

We are the Cambridge University branch of Healthy Planet UK - a student group working to raise awareness of the links between climate change and health.

We bring people together to grow and share nutritious food and help build stronger communities and healthier ecosystems.

At Six Degrees, we bring together the brightest and most passionate scholars from Russell Group universities to generate and advocate new pathways to sustainability.

Circular Cambridge is a project of Cambridge Carbon Footprint, a small local charity concerned with climate change. Our aim is to help people work together creatively to make real reductions in their CO2 emissions.

WarpIt is an online marketplace to help redistribute resources legally and conveniently within the University for free. It is designed to make it easy for staff to find others with spare items - reducing procurement spend. It also helps staff who are disposing of “stuff” to find new owners - saving on waste disposal costs.

A service that helps people on low income or benefits to buy furniture, electrical and white goods and other household items that they may not otherwise be able to afford. Volunteering opportunities that enable people to come together and work as a team and be part of a community that spans all ages, lifestyles and life experiences.

Refill your water bottle across the city

A new seminar programme designed to educate people about the biggest hurdles in tackling climate change and create a shared understanding about what the most effective actions might be to mitigate it.

Voiz is a start-up social venture created to train college students in sustainability evaluation. Our mission is to accelerate the shift towards a sustainable economy by guiding consumers and corporations on how to choose and design sustainably. We now have over 250 students who have gone through training from schools like UCLA, Cornell, NYU and UCL, and from both undergraduate and graduate programmes.

AI for the study of Environmental Risks. Embedded in the outstanding research environments of the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the AI4ER CDT will address problems that are relevant to building resilience to environmental hazards and managing environmental change.

As the threat of ecological collapse effects us all, our work draws from Wolfson’s international and diverse network, membership and friends to help trigger the deep changes needed to wider global systems. We accomplish this through an interdisciplinary focus, multi-generational collaboration and systems thinking to build a resilient community, increasingly regenerative action and accessible knowledge.

The youth and student wing of the Green Party in Cambridge who fight for people and the planet!

An Oxbridge-wide campaign to end university support to the banks that are fuelling the climate crisis and funding global violence

Camcycle is a member-led, local charity which works for more, better and safer cycling for all ages and abilities in and around Cambridge.

We are a Christian group as part of Just Love that run events and work with churches to encourage and promote them becoming Eco Churches, which is an award that churches can gain if they make planet positive changes.

We want to platform the voices of individuals – in all their diversity – who are experiencing the differentiated impacts of the environmental crisis. We want to share their knowledge, experiences and hopes in a non-technical, heterogeneous way.

We run events and projects aiming to strengthen the links between research and policymaking

We run community meals using surplus food

We promote the study of Natural history and also have a lecture series during term time.

On The Verge Cambridge promotes the growing of nectar-rich flowers around the city. Our aim is to provide an abundance of food sources for pollinating insects which are in catastrophic decline.

We campaign to eradicate, as far as possible, synthetic pesticide use across Cambridge city whether by the council, schools, colleges, businesses or private individuals and encourage people to switch to benign alternatives.

Transition Cambridge supports Cambridge in becoming more sustainable and resilient in the face of a changing climate.

A spatial plan for nature recovery in Cambridge.

CamDEAG supports the principle of economies that are regenerative and distributive by design and we build relationships with local government and other key organisations to help deliver this vision for Cambridge.

The Equipment Sharing Project is Cambridge’s global initiative to raise awareness of equipment sharing and drive efficiencies by maximising the opportunity for national and international collaboration. If you are a Cambridge member of Staff, PhD, MRes, or MPhil research student, you will have access to the Equipment Sharing Database via your university log-in.

We promote the transfer of knowledge and ideas within the university to accelerate the energy transition.

The Cambridge SDG Hub aims to educate and empower action for the UN Sustainable Development Goals amongst the Cambridge Community--through speaker events, socials and opportunities for action.

We are campaigning to save the green belt land, green corridors and an ancient orchard which are all under threat from the proposed Cambourne to Cambridge Busway

CCRC is researching mechanisms for Climate Repair with the aim of buying our planet time. We offer a series of student internship opportunities each summer.

Friends of the Cam are a Cambridge based campaigning group committed to restoring the health of the river Cam and its tributaries for the benefit of nature.

The Switch Cambridge is an ethical banking campaign to inform students about the role of banks in destructive industries such as the fossil fuel industry, the arms trade, deforestation etc. and raise awareness about the impact even an individual change of bank account can have.

Plant-Based Universities Cambridge is a student-led climate campaign calling for the University of Cambridge to follow its own scientific research and transition to 100% plant-based catering.