We are delighted to host a panel discussion in association with Cambridge Zero this Academic Book Week (ABW).

The theme for ABW this year is Academic Books and The Environment, and the aim of the week is to ‘open up a dialogue between the makers, providers and readers of academic books, and increase awareness of the academic book as a vehicle for ground-breaking ideas’. CUP Bookshop is delighted to be co-ordinating a cross-disciplinary discussion on current research and academic work being undertaken on environmental issues. The panellists will discuss how the University is positioning itself on these issues with the establishment of the Cambridge Zero project, and how the Press is supporting this and setting itself at the vanguard of publishing in this area. Each guest will give a short presentation of their work and then a joint discussion followed by Q&A.

Panellists:

Dr Emily Shuckburgh is Director of Cambridge Zero at the University of Cambridge and Reader in Environmental Data Science at the Department of Computer Science and Technology. She is a mathematician and climate scientist and a Fellow of Darwin College, a Fellow of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Science and Policy and a Fellow of the British Antarctic Survey. In her previous role at the British Antarctic Survey she led a national research programme on polar climate change.

Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge, Senior Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) & Executive Secretary, UNFCCC CoP26 Climate Law & Governance Initiative, is an award-winning expert jurist and professor of law and governance on sustainable development. Author/editor of 22 books and over 80 papers, Professor Cordonier Segger also edits a Cambridge University Press series and serves on the editorial boards of five law journals. She is a full professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada; chairs several experts commissions and the Future Board of Bit Bio, a Cambridge biomedical firm; and as former General Counsel to UN treaty bodies, advises countries on implementing climate change, biodiversity, natural resources, trade and investment accords. She is also Fellow in Law / LLM DoS for Lucy Cavendish College, co-founder of CEENRG and CCCE, Affiliated Fellow of LCIL and laureate of the Justitia Fundamentum and other honours.

Professor Paul Warde works on environmental, economic and social history and is Research Director of the Centre for History and economics, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge; and the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. His research focuses on natural resource use and its role in shaping societies and economic development, and particularly energy and fuel. He is the author of two major works on the history of environmental and economic thought, The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny 1500-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and The Environment: a History of the Idea (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). He is also an editor of In Search of Good Energy Policy, published last year with CUP.

Professor Mike Hulme studies the cultural and epistemic construction of the idea of climate change, and its discursive and material effects, drawing upon scientific, social scientific and humanities insight. From 2000 to 2007 he was the Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, a multi-institutional and inter-disciplinary research centre based at the University of East Anglia (UEA). For 12 years prior to establishing the Tyndall Centre, Hulme worked in the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at UEA. In 2007 he received a personalised certificate from the Nobel Peace Prize committee in recognition of his 'significant contribution' to the work of the United Nations' IPCC. His books include Why We Disagree about Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity (CUP, 2009) and Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer (Routledge, 2019)