This year at COP29, Durham Univeristy's application to host an official UNFCCC Side Event was approved by the UNFCCC Secretariat. The event was live streamed, from the Baku, Azerbaijan COP29 venue, at UNFCCC official channels and was viewed by our staff and students at Durham University.

Professor Petra Minnerop, Professor of International Law at Durham Law School, shares her insights from COP29 - including the COP's mandate under UNFCCC, the new Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance, and an update on the carbon markets.

Professor Laura Marsiliani, Department of Economics, shares her insights from COP29.

Hafiz Ghulam Mustafa Kamran, PhD Candidate at Durham Law School, offers a critical view of the COP Presidencies Troika.

We are celebrating a milestone in our collaboration with the Wolfson Foundation as Paul Ramsbottom, the Foundation's chief executive, visited us recently to mark 50 years of groundbreaking collaborative work, which has contributed to numerous pioneering projects across our University.

We’ve launched a new £5m research centre to support North East England’s growing space industry and lead on the sustainable exploration of the cosmos.

This year, we sent six delegates to the Conference of Parties in Baku, Azerbaijan. Learn how their work helps to address the challenges of an ever-changing and complex world – and inspires the next generation of problem-solvers.

A new £5m research centre to support North East England’s growing space industry and lead on the sustainable exploration of the cosmos has been launched, led by Prof. James Osborn of Durham University's Physics Department, a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and associate professor within CfAI. The Durham University Space Research Centre (SPARC) draws upon our considerable and world-renowned expertise in space technology and research.

Five Durham researchers have been named on a prestigious list for their world-leading research.

Albert Einstein’s transformational prediction about how gravity behaves has been backed by an international team of researchers who studied how the force acts on cosmic scales.

Scientists from NASA and our Department of Physics have used supercomputer simulations to reveal that Mars’ moons may have been formed from destroyed asteroid fragments.

Our researchers have studied wild monkeys problem-solving for food to better understand how social dynamics can influence behaviour and learning.