22 April 2024 - Published on Earth Day 2024, CISL's new report draws on the dominant themes that emerged from the discussions at the Global Leadership Summit in February 2024, in particular the need for effective leadership.
In response to rising geopolitical tensions, conflict and AI dominating political agendas, the University of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL) brought together influential thinkers, experts and leaders from across the world for a 2-day summit in February 2024 to address the unprecedented challenges that currently face global leadership.
Through discussions ranging across geopolitics, global governance, domestic politics, economics, finance and technology, the Summit sought to answer the question: what leadership is needed now, and from whom?
Today’s report – Global Leadership in the Age of Turbulence - provides a synthesis of the main insights from the Summit (conducted under the Chatham House Rule), all of which offer hope for the way forward.
The report draws on the dominant themes that emerged from the discussions, in particular the need for effective leadership:
leadership with the moral courage and integrity to tell the truth about the nature of the challenges that societies face;
with a commitment to building alliances and harnessing the transformative power of tech and human ingenuity finding ways to co-exist on a finite planet.
And – critically – for those in positions of power internationally to use their positions to inform, empower and enable action at scale right across societies.