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Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

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2 July 2015 – Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is today launching its milestone report and business model – Rewiring the Economy – to show how government, business and finance can work together to create an economy which favours sustainable business models and delivers positive outcomes for people and the environment.


CISL’s ten-year plan to transition towards a sustainable economy is built on ten interconnected tasks for government, finance and business. It is rooted in over twenty-five years of experience of working with global leaders in sustainability and was developed in consultation with CISL’s network and alumni of over 6,000 academics, business leaders and policymakers. The report shows how these tasks can be tackled co-operatively over the next decade to scale up efforts already underway and create the conditions for business to become an engine for sustainable development. 

On launch Polly Courtice, Director of CISL said:

"This is not about creating a new model for sustainable development, the UN is doing that. It is about setting clear tasks within an achievable horizon, and catalysing collaborative action in the months and years to come from leaders across the world who recognise that operating within a new economic model is the only way forward."

Dr Jake Reynolds, Director, Sustainable Economy at CISL and author of the report, said:

"Progress on sustainability requires the combined creativity and determination of business, finance and government leaders. No one can do this alone and Rewiring the Economy calls on our extensive and diverse network of leaders to collaborate with us, and many others, to explore the tasks, make them their own, and promote them to their stakeholders for serious and consistent impact."


Read more about Rewiring the Economy.