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Key considerations for creating sustainable food systems

15 September 2025 — In this blog, Sarah Bailey explores the current context for sustainable food systems, considers what needs to change to ensure resilience and longevity of this critical sector and identifies core actions to support the transition. This blog is based on the learnings from the Sustainable Food: Production and Processing 8-week online course. Additional insights can be found in the latest report from CISL Fellow Paul Gilding, ‘Renewable food: A transformed and renewable food system is now possible.’

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From Ambition to Strategy: shaping what comes next

16 September 2025 - Lindsay Hooper, CEO at CISL, discusses the tension shaping business leadership today: the promise of innovation and momentum toward sustainability versus the systemic risks and political instability threatening progress. Drawing on conversations with senior leaders, Lindsay explores how ambition, resilience, and strategic influence are vital in navigating this space.

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Renewable food is on the horizon. Industrial agriculture is failing us - but markets have found a solution

1 September 2025 - CISL Fellow Paul Gilding argues in the Financial Times that the noise of politics and business trends distracts from the real story: science and economics. Industrial agriculture is running out of land, water and climate capacity just as global food demand is set to soar. The system won’t bend forever — the question is when it breaks.

The Ibero-American Business Network: Amplifying business leadership for climate action ahead of COP30

28 August 2025 - María Teresa Ruiz-Tagle, Executive Director,CLG-Chile, shares why her organisation became a founding member of the Ibero-American Business Network for Green Growth (IABN), and how it helps to strengthen business action for climate ambition across Latin America in the run up to COP30.

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What are green buildings and what role do they play in a sustainable built environment?

27 August 2025 – Rupert Jordi, CISL Programme Manager, explores 'green' buildings, warns against conflating building certification with true sustainability, and argues the label is less important than the outcomes.

Sustainable Business Students working on their group project

A day in the life of a Master's in Sustainability Leadership student

Friday 15 August - Sebastian Habersack Martos, Sustainability Expert at Philip Morris Austria and a student on the Master’s in Sustainability Leadership, shares his experience of studying the programme and details what a day looks like during the third of his residential workshops in Cambridge, UK.

A day in the life of a Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Business student

Friday 15 August - Iguatemi Melo Costa, Scientific Manager at Natura Cosmeticos SA and a student on the Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Business at CISL, shares a day in the life of his studies in Cambridge, UK.

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A day in the life of a Master's in Sustainability Leadership student

Friday 15 August 2025 - Catherine Dickie, Change & Transformation Leader in the Media sector and a student on the Master’s in Sustainability Leadership, shares her experience of studying the programme and details what a day looks like during the second of her residential workshops in Cambridge, UK.

No one calls themselves a built environment professional – and that’s a problem

23 July 2025 - In this blog, Dr Kayla Friedman, Course Director for the Sustainability Leadership for the Built Environment programmes (SLBE) at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) explores the interdisciplinary nature of the built environment sector and considers the role of collaboration in delivering future-fit built spaces. First published on Construction news on 15 July 2025.

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A legacy of hope: Young African perspectives on leadership for a sustainable future

2 July 2025 - Young African scholars at the University of Cambridge believe that, with the right kind of leadership, Africa can be an example of positive transformation in the world – and take ownership of its own future.

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Key considerations for creating sustainable food systems

From Ambition to Strategy: shaping what comes next

Renewable food is on the horizon. Industrial agriculture is failing us - but markets have found a solution

The Ibero-American Business Network: Amplifying business leadership for climate action ahead of COP30

What are green buildings and what role do they play in a sustainable built environment?

A day in the life of a Master's in Sustainability Leadership student

A day in the life of a Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Business student

A day in the life of a Master's in Sustainability Leadership student

No one calls themselves a built environment professional – and that’s a problem

A legacy of hope: Young African perspectives on leadership for a sustainable future

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