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| Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research | |
|---|---|
| Name | Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research |
| Established | 2012 |
| Location | Cambridge, England |
| Director | Dr. Emily Shaw |
| Affiliation | University of Cambridge |
Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research is an interdisciplinary institute located in Cambridge, England, affiliated with the University of Cambridge. The centre focuses on mitigation strategies that integrate science, engineering, and policy, engaging with partners such as the Met Office, the European Commission, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the World Bank, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It draws staff and collaborators from institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Imperial College London, Tsinghua University, and CSIRO.
Founded in 2012 with seed support from the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society, the centre emerged amid debates following the Copenhagen Conference and policy shifts after the Paris Agreement. Early leadership included academics linked to Trinity College, Cambridge, the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, and the Faculty of Engineering, University of Cambridge, many of whom previously worked with the Natural Environment Research Council and the European Research Council. The centre expanded through collaborations with the Oxford Martin School, the Grantham Institute, and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and hosted visiting scholars from Princeton University, Columbia University, Yale University, and Peking University.
Research themes span decarbonisation pathways, low-carbon technologies, carbon capture and storage, land-use change, and climate modelling, with projects tied to the International Energy Agency, the Global Carbon Project, and the IPCC. Programs include modelling initiatives using codes pioneered at Los Alamos National Laboratory and datasets cross-referenced with NASA, European Space Agency, and NOAA observations. Applied work connects to the Climate-KIC network, trials funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Research and Innovation council, and demonstration projects with BP, Shell, Siemens, and Rolls-Royce. Educational programs involve links to King's College Cambridge, St John's College, Cambridge, Cambridge Judge Business School, and international fellowships with the Nanyang Technological University and the University of Tokyo.
The governance model mirrors structures used by the Wellcome Trust and the Alan Turing Institute, with a directorate, advisory board, and thematic hubs. The advisory board has members from UNFCCC, the World Health Organization, European Parliament committees, and corporate representatives from Microsoft, Amazon, and General Electric. Academic divisions correspond to faculties such as the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, and the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Administrative oversight is coordinated with Cambridge Assessment and reporting aligns with practices at the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
The centre has formal partnerships with the Met Office Hadley Centre, the British Antarctic Survey, the National Oceanography Centre, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. International collaborations include projects with C40 Cities, ICLEI, UNEP, and bilateral programmes with the Government of India, the Government of China, the Government of Brazil, and the Government of Australia. Industry links encompass research contracts with BP, Shell, Equinor, Volkswagen, and Siemens Energy, while NGO partnerships include Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit. Student exchange and sabbatical arrangements exist with Harvard University, ETH Zurich, University of Cape Town, and The Australian National University.
Core funding streams combine grants from the European Research Council, the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), philanthropic gifts from the Wellcome Trust and the Rockefeller Foundation, and competitive contracts with the European Commission Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programmes. Endowment elements draw on donations managed through Cambridge University Press and stewardship models resembling the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Funding also includes sponsored research agreements with IBM, Google, BP, and TotalEnergies, and capital grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
The centre contributes assessments submitted to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and briefing papers used by delegations at COP26 and COP28, and offers expert testimony to committees in the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Its researchers have served as advisers to the European Commission climate directorates, the International Monetary Fund on climate risk, and the World Bank on resilience financing. Publications appear in journals such as Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet, and Nature Climate Change, and authors include fellows associated with the Royal Society and recipients of the Kavli Prize and the Blue Planet Prize.
The centre occupies laboratory and modelling space in Cambridge close to Eddington, the Cambridge Science Park, and the West Cambridge Site, with high-performance computing clusters co-located with the Judicial Offices—and partnered GPU resources modelled on facilities at Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Field research leverages assets from the British Antarctic Survey, the Natural History Museum, London, and observatories affiliated with Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Svalbard Satellite Station. Experimental pilot plants have been installed in collaboration with Drax Group, National Grid, and the Carbon Trust.
Category:Climate research institutes