Anil Madhavapeddy

Cambridge Zero highlights University efforts at Climate Week NYC (via) / Oct 2023

I was on stage in New York for Mission Possible during NYC Climate Week. I was there with Emily Shuckburgh and we met with a lot of Cambridge alumni who are all engaged with climate change related activities -- either directly in their careers, or through a side interest.

The major highlights on the discussions with alumni centred around agency: a lot of them were wondering how to combine the evidence coming out Cambridge research and combine it with real policy action. A number of the alumni are obviously highly successful in their individual careers, and so the University helping to glue this together would potentially result in valuable actions that might not otherwise come together.

This reminded me strongly of the discussions we had in Pembroke a little while back when Emily Shuckburgh chaired my talk about "Who's in Charge?" for the William Pitt Seminar where we had very similar discussions at dinner afterwards.

(See also Cambridge Zero notes on the event, and thanks to CISL.)