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ESD MPhil students’ start-up Terracotta Cooling secures runner-up position at the 2024 Cambridge Climate Challenge

2 October 2024

A design proposed by ESD MPhil students Jerrell Ong and Sebastian Lindner-Liaw , working with colleague Eric Tay , has the potential to reduce the energy costs and water consumption involved in cooling data centres in the Global South. The design by Terracotta Cooling would make use of locally sourced and produced...

ESD MPhil students place in the top three for the International Finance Corporation’s Impact Investing Challenge 2024

10 July 2024

MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development students Ryuta Kuniyoshi and Jocelin Wijaya, together with Cambridge MBA candidate Daisuke Nishizawa, took the second runner-up place at the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Impact Investing Challenge 2024 Grand Finale, in Washington, D.C., after securing a top...

Edoardo Borgomeo contributes to the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Environmental Science

25 June 2024

What’s the best approach to plan water resources? And what lessons can be learned from centuries of water resources planning? These are some of the questions addressed in an article published on 18 June 2024 and authored by CSD’s Edoardo Borgomeo. Edoardo’s invited contribution is titled “Policy Analysis and Investment...