The Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) was established in 2014 within the Department of Land Economy in order to conduct integrative research on the governance of environmental transitions 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. Its approach is inherently interdisciplinary, with a 30+ staff including lawyers, economists and political scientists, but also engineers and physicists. In line with the University of Cambridge’s strategic initiative on energy, C-EENRG is undertaking a number of projects relative to energy governance, looking in particular at the law of the energy transition; and the energy-food-water nexus. Read more.
The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law is part of the Faculty of Law and the scholarly home of international law at the University of Cambridge. In this role, it seeks to provide both a framework and forum for critical and constructive thought about the function, content and working of law in the international community as well as to develop an appreciation of international law as an applied body of rules and principles. Read more.
In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy is an Energy@Cambridge Strategic Research Initiative Grand Challenge, which focuses on developing and delivering new collaborative activities that deal with understanding the principles of formulating ‘good’ energy policies. Working with partner organisations from academia, industry and government we aim to develop strategies for applying these principles to support a diverse range of energy policy scenarios. Read more.