ֱ̽ of Cambridge - Melissa Leach /taxonomy/people/melissa-leach en Hope and determination for nature /stories/cop16-united-nations-biodiversity-summit-briefing <div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>Cambridge Conservation Initiative Executive Director Melissa Leach offers insights on the COP16 Global Biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia as government ministers engage in tense final negotiations and the latest news from the natural world is that more than a third of tree species face extinction in the wild.</p> </p></div></div></div> Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:41:16 +0000 plc32 248535 at Cambridge is forging a future for our planet /climate-and-nature <div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>Find out how Cambridge's pioneering research in climate and nature is regenerating nature, rewiring energy, rethinking transport and redefining economics – forging a future for our planet.</p> </p></div></div></div> Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:00:36 +0000 lw355 248511 at Changemakers: Melissa Leach and Cambridge Conservation Initiative /stories/changemakers-melissa-leach <div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>Meet the new leader of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, Professor Melissa Leach CBE.</p> </p></div></div></div> Mon, 21 Oct 2024 08:38:30 +0000 lkm37 248421 at Cambridge conservation and sustainable business leaders prepare for COP16 /news/cambridge-conservation-and-sustainable-business-leaders-prepare-for-cop16 <div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/news/cci-and-cisl-panel-discussion.jpg?itok=bEepZKvk" alt="Panel members from CCI and CISL discuss the upcoming COP16" title="Panel members from CCI and CISL discuss the upcoming COP16, Credit: CISL" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p> ֱ̽Cambridge Conservation Initiative and the ֱ̽ of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) co-hosted a panel discussion featuring key industry leaders in the run-up to the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16). Please read more about the panel <a href="https://www.cambridgeconservation.org/cci-and-cisl-host-industry-leaders-panel-ahead-of-cbd-cop16/">here</a></p> </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/" target="_blank">CISL</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-desctiprion field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Panel members from CCI and CISL discuss the upcoming COP16</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cc-attribute-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"><img alt="Creative Commons License." src="/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/inner-images/cc-by-nc-sa-4-license.png" style="border-width: 0px; width: 88px; height: 31px;" /></a><br /> ֱ̽text in this work is licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>. Images, including our videos, are Copyright © ֱ̽ of Cambridge and licensors/contributors as identified. All rights reserved. We make our image and video content available in a number of ways – on our <a href="/">main website</a> under its <a href="/about-this-site/terms-and-conditions">Terms and conditions</a>, and on a <a href="/about-this-site/connect-with-us">range of channels including social media</a> that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-cc-text field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Yes</div></div></div> Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:50:40 +0000 plc32 248311 at Sir David Attenborough's 'joy' on visit to Cambridge Conservation Initiative /news/sir-david-attenboroughs-joy-on-visit-to-cambridge-conservation-initiative <div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/news/sir-david-attenborough-visit-to-cambridge-cci-conservation-campus.jpg?itok=PdEfbxU7" alt="Photo of Sir David Attenborough on a visit to Cambridge Conservation Research Initiative " title="Photo of Sir David Attenborough on a visit to Cambridge Conservation Research Initiative , Credit: Cambridge Conservation Initiative" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Sir David said of visiting CCI that he felt “an undercurrent of joy” whenever he came to the conservation campus, which is housed in the building bearing his own name.</p> <p> ֱ̽campus was opened in 2016 and is the first of its kind, with over 500 conservation professionals and researchers, from 10 different organisations and the ֱ̽ of Cambridge, all collaborating to stop the biodiversity crisis and build more hopeful futures for people and nature.</p> <p>Read the full story: <a href="https://www.cambridgeconservation.org/sir-davids-visits-cci/">'An Undercurrent of Joy'</a></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>Sir David Attenborough spoke of how he feels during visits to the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) when he stopped by the CCI conservation campus at the ֱ̽ of Cambridge this week.</p> </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/" target="_blank">Cambridge Conservation Initiative</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-desctiprion field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Photo of Sir David Attenborough on a visit to Cambridge Conservation Research Initiative </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cc-attribute-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"><img alt="Creative Commons License." src="/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/inner-images/cc-by-nc-sa-4-license.png" style="border-width: 0px; width: 88px; height: 31px;" /></a><br /> ֱ̽text in this work is licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>. Images, including our videos, are Copyright © ֱ̽ of Cambridge and licensors/contributors as identified. All rights reserved. We make our image and video content available in a number of ways – on our <a href="/">main website</a> under its <a href="/about-this-site/terms-and-conditions">Terms and conditions</a>, and on a <a href="/about-this-site/connect-with-us">range of channels including social media</a> that permit your use and sharing of our content under their respective Terms.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-cc-text field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Yes</div></div></div> Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:01:44 +0000 plc32 248021 at