Past Events

Collaboration event between the University of Cambridge’s Decarbonisation Network and CRASSH. 

This workshop aims to develop understanding of the physical and technical sciences' role in securing our low-carbon future by identifying the current research related to decarbonisation within the University of Cambridge.

As outlined by the Ellen Macarthur Foundation, a circular economy is based on three principles: eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value) and regenerate nature.

The "Data for the Public Good" report published by the National Infrastructure Commission in 2017 highlighted the case for new technologies offering the potential for significant productivity gains.

A Cambridge Festival event organised by Cambridge Global Food Security IRC and 

Heating is essential for everyday life on the University of Cambridge Estate and the Colleges. Concurrently, reducing the amount of carbon produced by heating systems is fundamental for achieving absolute zero targets. Innovators have a key role here, as do asset managers and other stakeholders.

The Decarbonisation Network has secured some funding to increase academic-industry collaboration for the testing and characterisation of light harvesting materials and devices including solar cells, photoelectrochemical cells and photodetectors, among others.

Digital twins can pair the physical environment with the ‘virtual world’ via a digital duplicate. Panellists will discuss where the use of digital twins can help transportation networks decarbonise, and the challenges and limitations associated with adopting this technology.

Panellists will discuss the role physics and chemistry have in the production of biofuels and how synergies between these areas can emerge (i) to address basic science questions and (ii) to support the energy transition.

There are an increasing number of calls to scale up retrofit to improve the energy performance of the UK’s building stock. This requires the consideration of multiple factors including: stakeholder attitudes, supply chain capacity, financial incentives and technical barriers.