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Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

Preparing the runway for sustainable aviation

26 January 2022

26 January 2022 - Miruna Rapeanu and Beth Barker reflect on the challenges and the next steps for the Aviation Impact Accelerator following COP26.

The moment of truth?

15 November 2021

15 November 2021 - Eliot Whittington, Director of the Corporate Leaders Groups, argues COP26 was not the failure some have accused it of being - but now the onus is on businesses to prove their critics wrong

Climate talks will fail without more young people's voices

29 June 2021

29 June 2021 – Anna Barford, CISL Research Fellow, reflects on why it is critical to engage diverse young people in decision making to find successful pathways to respond to climate change.

How can we move towards the future we want?

22 December 2020

22 December 2020 – In 2020 the coronavirus pandemic tested us all, both individually and collectively. It has also revealed the fragility of our current economic and social systems in the face of crisis. This comes at a time when further ‘system shocks’ are expected from climate change and the destruction of our natural systems, writes James Cole.

Centre for Policy and Industrial Transformation

5 June 2019

The global economy is facing multiple waves of innovation and change. At the same time, evidence is building that it is both necessary and possible to reshape our society and our economy to resolve the environmental crises we find ourselves facing, to deliver real social benefit to all of society...

Climate progress is key to reinvigorate European project

22 May 2019

23 May 2019 – If the EU is to regain trust and achieve a renewed social contract, the most progressive response to the climate crisis must be at the core of its new mission, writes Martin Porter, Executive Chair in Brussels, The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

How climate action is transforming the very fabric of business

18 December 2018

18 December 2018 – Karl Henrik Sundström is CEO of StoraEnso, a provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wood construction and paper and member of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group. Here he reflects on the need for governments to publicly commit to net zero carbon emissions to lay down the indicators of success for businesses.