Director of Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University. Speaks and writes regularly about climate change & the need for repairing the climate.
As the world grapples with the urgent need to address climate change, it has become increasingly clear that our built environment stands both as a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and as a sector… Read More »Reimagining Buildings: A Secret Weapon for Net Zero
As we approach COP30 with its focus on reducing emissions, I want to set out a clear view of how natural and man-made landscapes can deliver meaningful climate gains under two complementary principles: reduce emissions… Read More »A Practical Agenda – Managing Landscapes to Cut Emissions and Remove Methane
The climate conversation is shifting. Recent media coverage has been noticeably more open to serious research into climate repair and while this isn’t about the Centre for Climate Repair (CCR) per se, it reflects a… Read More »A Decisive Decade: Cambridge’s Three-R Strategy for Climate Repair
It is important to note from the outset that reducing emissions is, without question, critical. But it is equally vital to understand that it won’t be enough on its own. The simple truth is that… Read More »Greenhouse Gas Removal: a critical component to cool the Earth system
The conversation surrounding geoengineering has grown in urgency as scientists continue to forecast that global temperatures are on track to exceed 2°C, with many efforts falling short of holding temperatures below the 1.5°C target. As… Read More »Geoengineering and the Urgency for Climate Repair
As we move towards COP29 the urgency for making progress on nurturing landscapes as carbon sinks to help recycle the global atmospheric carbon burden. Progress, but at a glacial pace One of the most significant… Read More »A critical role for landscapes in tackling the wider climate problem
Dr Shaun Fitzgerald spoke with Colin Murray from the BBC about two leading climate issues; the rate of installation of heat pumps in the UK, and the scale of the impact that China currently has… Read More »Leading Issues: UK’s shaky progress on heat pump installations and China’s clean energy transformation.
Greenhouse gas concentrations are racing up with impacts touching the lives of many people and ecosystems in both the southern and northern hemisphere. How does the Centre for Climate Repair characterise the challenge with regard… Read More »Removing Carbon Dioxide Removal At Scale – balancing urgency with caution
Dr Shaun Fitzgerald OBE, Director of the Centre for Climate Repair in Cambridge, discusses new research to build resilient and scaleable kelp growing platforms, asking the key question: can kelp forests capture and store a… Read More »Dr Shaun Fitzgerald OBE – Can Kelp Forests Capture a billion tonnes of carbon?
With the climate continuing to change and severe weather events becoming more frequent and more severe, there needs to be increased focus on addressing the root cause of these changes – emissions of greenhouse gases.… Read More »Addressing 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment
Challenge for society Globally, buildings are responsible for approximately 30% of all energy use. Some of that energy is going to be provided by electricity that comes from wind turbines which do not have any… Read More »Building Infrastructure Challenges | Getting Beyond Net Zero
The level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is too high; we are currently at over 500ppm CO2e. Worse still, global emissions continue apace. This is in part due to the inertia in our societies… Read More »Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) at scale is complex but necessary
