Department of Land Economy

🎉 Honored: Our carbon credit quality study was selected as 2024 Max Planck Research Highlight by the Max Planck Society. After 3 years of intensive work with 11 amazing co-authors, our Nature Communications paper revealed that less than 16% of studied carbon credits represent real emission reductions. 📊 Key findings: Analysis of ~1 billion carbon credits Substantial quality issues across project types: 🍳 Cookstoves: 11% represent real reductions 🌳 Avoided deforestation: 25% 🏭 Industrial gas projects: 16-68% 💨 Wind & forest management: No significant reductions 🔍 Explore our findings: Interactive platform: www.carboncredits.fyi Research group: www.netzerolab.science Max Planck highlight: https://lnkd.in/drJwP8TU Full paper: https://lnkd.in/dhfvQyUM 🆕 Just out: "The negligible role of carbon offsetting in corporate climate strategies" Our new working paper with Niklas Stolz examines the role of carbon credits in corporate climate strategies: https://lnkd.in/damKtHZU 🙏 Big thanks to Myriam Rion at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition for the fantastic press work and to all co-authors who made this possible: Malte Toetzke, ANDREAS KONTOLEON, Laura Diaz Anadon, Jan Minx, Barbara Haya, Lambert Schneider, Philipp Trotter, Thales A. P. West, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Volker Hoffmann #MaxPlanck #Research #ClimateAction #CarbonMarkets #Sustainability #Science

New paper alert! In 'Restoring the Regulated: The EU's Nature Restoration Law', with Emma Lees of the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, we probe the newly enacted nature restoration regulation, which came into force last year. The law is hugely ambitious, incredibly technical, and evidently bears the hallmarks of hard-won compromises, and this comes with a real risk of resulting in a performative body of law. We identify four key ‘interpretive puzzles’ arising from the law: - the relative priorities between the different obligations in the NRL; - the correct approach to timescales and the concept of natural range; - the ‘climate change causation defence’, and - the interaction between the definition of restoration measures and pre-emptive measures. These four puzzles give rise to a clear tension between the law's mandated ‘plan-led’ approach, and a potential lack of Member State discretion in the contents of that plan. The article is now out in early access with the Journal of Environmental Law on https://lnkd.in/ds9CkyNi Happy to share a draft version upon request.

🌍 🤝 Dr Joanna Depledge, Fellow of the Department's Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), has been featured in an article for the Associated Press. Read more on our website here: https://lnkd.in/e9Qgu79w #LandEc #LandEconomy #Cambridge #Climate #Negotiations #ClimateNegotiations

🚨 Just 4 days left! 🚨 Submit your abstract for the 14th Annual Conference of the Cambridge International Law Journal before 23:59 GMT on 9 January 2025! 🌍 This year’s theme, ‘Navigating a Multipolar World: Challenges to the Post-WWII Status Quo of International Law’, invites bold ideas and critical perspectives. Don't miss the chance to contribute to this prestigious forum—submit your abstract and CV now: https://lnkd.in/ebxnRVzp ✍️✨ #CILJConference2025 #CallForPapers #InternationalLaw #MultipolarWorld Keilin Anderson Kevin Zou

👏 🌟 🌍 Congratulations, Paulina!! Anyone interested in applying for our MPhil in Environmental Policy can find out more information on our 💻 website here: https://lnkd.in/gvmFixSk #LandEc #LandEconomy #Cambridge #MPhil #EnvironmentalPolicy

As we come towards the end of the year and a busy Michaelmas term, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to reflect upon all things CUREFIS ! ✅ We managed to secure 13 sponsorships and partnerships so far. ✅ Our CUREFIS community grew with over 300 sign ups and a fresh set of analysts. At CUREFIS we pride ourselves on putting on events and creating opportunities for students to increase their knowledge about the real estate industry and to network with top industry professionals. Michaelmas Event Recap : Week 1: Freshers Fair Week 2: EQT Exeter Presentation & Meet the Committee Mixer Week 3: CULS Careers Fair & CUREFIS Real Estate Applications & Internship Panel Week 5 & 6: Our first Research Roundtable Event in collaboration with The Developers Club & The launch of both the Hines and CUREFIS Mentoring Schemes respectively Week 8: Hosted the KTH Real Estate Club Sweden for an exchange program & hosted the CUREFIS Cambridge Case Competition, with help from Savills and the Department of Land Economy. Thank you to all our members, sponsors and partners for an amazing term. We are looking forward to what 2025 has in store. Make sure to check in with all our social medias to keep updated with all our events and opportunities in the forthcoming year.

🚄 🚌 🚋 The Department's Professor Shaun Larcom has been featured in an article for Bloomberg News, speaking on public transportation. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ebwDsnev #LandEc #LandEconomy #Cambridge #Public #Transport #Commuting #2025

In our newly published paper in #EcologicalEconomics, Floris Blok and I explore how localised natural hazards—such as flooding, landslides, avalanches and debris flow—affect rental rates. Using a unique dataset from Switzerland, we find that: ·        Rents in flood-prone areas are 1.4-1.8% lower compared to unaffected locations which may come as a surprise since the loss in asset value typically impacts the property owner, not the tenant. ·        This rental discount could reflect tenants' concerns about potential disruptions or risks to their health in the event of a flood. ·        When it comes to gravitational hazards (such as landslides), the evidence is less clear. This may be due to these events being less frequent compared to water-related damage, leading to less concern from renters.   Click here for the full paper (Open Access):

📚 New Research: 🌊 ♻️ Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG) Post-doctoral Researcher D. Cale Reeves, Ph.D. has co-authored a new article in Resources, Conservation & Recycling Read more on our website 🖥️ https://lnkd.in/ezWGyz5P #LandEc #LandEconomy #Cambridge #Research #Water #WaterPolicy #Policy #USPolicy Elsevier

👩⚕️ 🏙️ 📙 Researchers at the Department's Lab of Interdisciplinary Spatial Analysis (LISA) have published in Progress in Planning. Read more on our website 💻 ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/exyTFKeF #LandEc #LandEconomy #Cambridge #Research #LISA #ProgressinPlanning #UrbanHealth #Policy Ana Paula Seraphim Haifeng Niu Elisabete A. Silva