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Dr Edoardo Borgomeo's recent blog article, Rethinking irrigation in a water-scarce world,discusses the complexities associated with maximising water use efficiency in agriculture.  Written with Claudia Sadoff, this article is currently featured in Economist Impact.

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 terracotta cylinders to aid in cool…

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 three position in the Challeng…

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 Appraisal in the Water Sector…

Cambridge engineers will join a new £6 million project exploring the extent to which the circular economy could meet the UK’s building needs – using zero new material extractions, with zero emissions and zero waste. At Cambridge, Professor Jonathan Cullen and the CSD's Dr André Cabrera Serrenho will be developing the most complete and open characte…

Edoardo Borgomeo of the Centre for Sustainable Development was one of the lead authors of the 2024 Asia-Pacific SDG Partnership report People and Planet: Addressing the Interlinked Challenges of Climate Change, Poverty and Hunger in Asia and the Pacific. This is the annual flagship publication of the SDG partnership promoted by the Asian Developmen…

A new blog article by Professor Richard Fenner, released in conjunction with the release of the fully-revised second edition Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into Practice by Fenner, Ainger and Sykes, highlights a range of critical issues that must be overcome in developing sustainable infrastructure systems that deliver essential services in…

Professor Richard Fenner, Charles Ainger and former Engineering for Sustainable Development MPhil student Judith Sykes have recently released the updated second edition of their book Sustainable Infrastructure: Principles into Practice with ICE Publishing. The book is a practical handbook to help engineers deliver sustainable responses to the urgen…

A new study by Dr André Cabrera Serrenho and Dr Yunhu Gao has mapped the global flows of fertilisers and their emissions.  Their work, featured in February’s Nature Food, has established that the production and use of nitrogen fertilisers accounts for 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions and that around two-thirds of emissions from fertilisers occ…

An article by the CSD's PhD student Emma Houiellebecq is featured in the 2022 edition of The Scholar, a Gates Cambridge publication.  Emma's work addresses the challenges of maintaining essential infrastructure, such as the provision of electricity and water, in the Gaza Strip.  "Coping with Conflict in the Gaza Strip: Keeping the lights on and the…

Congratulations to Dr Morgan for being awarded a Pilkington Prize by the University for his excellence, innovation and leadership in teaching. He is one of 12 winners from across the University and the only academic from Engineering to be a recipient of the award this year.  The Pilkington Prize awards were endowed and inaugurated in 1994 by Sir Al…

Cambridge University's Centre for Science and Policy Podcast invites academic and policy experts to share their insights into some of the major challenges society faces today. Their latest series is focused on how science advice, data and evidence are used by decision makers in government. Dr Kristen MacAskill (Centre for Sustainable Development) j…

A review of recently updated building sustainability assessment tools conducted by PhD student Ms Amie Shuttleworth and Assistant Professor Dr Kristen MacAskill  of the Centre for Sustainable Development has found that there is significantly less focus on the integration of climate change adaptation compared with climate mitigation efforts.Ms Shutt…

Live online information session and Q&A for prospective MPhil students, 12th November 2021.The University of Cambridge's Centre for Sustainable Development invites prospective students to a live online information session on the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development on Fri 12th November at 16:30 (UK time). The session will include a pres…

We are delighted to announce that Dr Kristen MacAskill has been recognised as one of 2021’s top 50 Women in Engineering. Founded by the Women's Engineering Society in 2016, the WE50 awards are a UK event linked to International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) – a celebration of women in engineering that takes place on 23 June each year.Dr MacAskil…