C-EENRG

Welcome to the website of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG, read ‘synergy’). C-EENRG’s core mission is to conduct integrative research on the governance of environmental transitions, understood as social and technological processes driven by environmental constraints that lead to fundamental changes in social organisation. Our work draws upon the knowledge of the drivers and implications of environmental change generated in various centres across the University of Cambridge and focuses on the law and governance dimensions of environmental transitions. Law is viewed as a technology to bring, guide and/or manage environment-driven societal transformation.

C-EENRG Featured Article

Reports have questioned whether electric cars really are ‘greener’ once emissions from production and generating their electricity are taken into account. But a new study by the universities of Exeter, Nijmegen and Cambridge has concluded that electric cars lead to lower carbon emissions overall, even if electricity generation still relies on fossil fuels. The results are reported in the journal Nature Sustainability. The study finds that under current conditions, driving an electric car is better for the climate than conventional petrol cars in 95% of the world.

C-EENRG Featured Video

Prof. Laura Diaz Anadon is featured alongside Sir David Attenborough, Dr Jane Goodall DBE, and other leading University of Cambridge researchers in a new film about the climate crisis and some of the solutions that will take us towards zero carbon

Watch 'The Climate Crisis: Towards Zero Carbon'

C-EENRG Report

A Global Pact for the Environment - Legal Foundations. The report gathers compilations from some of the main authorities in international environmental law from around the World. The project leading to this compilation of studies has two purposes. The first is to leave a record of the intellectual discussions underpinning the project of a Global Pact for the Environment, with its many sources, views and debates. The second is to contribute to the discussions of the ad hoc open-ended working group established by UN General Assembly A/72/L.51. The report includes a preface from Laurent Fabius, former President of the COP21.

C-EENRG Featured Conversation

To combat global warming, the world needs to change where it gets its energy from. Three energy experts - Nigel Brandon (Imperial), Laura Diaz Anadon (C-EENRG) and Yacob Mulugetta (UCL) - discuss the challenges of transitioning to low-carbon energy, and what advances are needed to make the journey possible. This is the final episode in the Grand Challenges podcast series.

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Database on State Bilateral Energy Agreements

On November 2017, Dr Tibisay Morgandi, Postdoctoral Fellow at C-EENRG, University of Cambridge, published an original collection of State bilateral agreements regulating State activities in the field of energy.

Welcome to EnergyBilaterals.org

C-EENRG Working Papers

The C-EENRG Working Papers provide a platform to convey research aiming to support the effective governance of such environmental transitions. The series hosts research across disciplines, including law, economics, policy, and modelling.

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