3rd July 2024, 10.00 - 13.00
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) will convene a group of leading businesses to discuss business model transformation in support of nature-positive outcomes. Participants will benefit from insights from recent CISL work in this area, and be given the opportunity to share learnings, insights and best practice with other organisations at the forefront of nature positive innovation.
CISL is working to understand how system-level transformation of the economy can be achieved to support nature positive outcomes. Increasingly, our business and finance leadership groups recognise the critical role natural systems have to play in underpinning sustainable economic activity, but also in securing positive outcomes for people and the climate.
Our recent work covers areas as diverse as an engagement guide for financial institutions on related nature and climate risks; guidance for the agri-food sector on nature; and a primer on setting science-based nature targets for fashion companies to name just a few examples.
Building on this expertise, we are now seeking to understand how business models can be transformed to deliver positive outcomes for nature, and are looking to engage with a broad spectrum of businesses as part of this. We want to understand how the broader supply chain across different sectors can catalyse business innovation, including the creation of new business models where value creation is based on delivering nature positive outcomes.
This event will bring together businesses of different sizes from a range of sectors to participate in an open dialogue on the challenges, opportunities and learnings from their efforts to integrate nature into the core of their business. We hope this will be the beginning of a ‘coalition of the willing’ who might be interested in continued engagement on this theme over a period of time.
Likely format and agenda items:
Plenary session:
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The broader context – why now is the moment to take increasingly bold action on nature, and how CISL is planning to foster this into the future
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Business briefing on CISL’s current thinking and research into business models that generate positive outcomes for nature
Breakout sessions:
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Discussions on novel approaches to nature positive business: participants can share ideas, learnings and opportunities
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Discussions on the barriers to scaling up innovative business models with nature positive outcomes, including the role of investment, policy and regulation.
Networking lunch
Register your interest here
Please contact Edmund.dickens@cisl.cam.ac.uk for further information.
