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5 February 2025 - The ClimateWise Principles Independent Review 2024 highlights progress and challenges for insurance industry members reporting against new, ambitious principles.Press ReleaseClimateWise - the global insurance industry leadership group founded in 2007 and facilitated by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leade…

Whatever the White House does, it won't change the market fundamentals driving the net zero transition, writes Beverley Cornaby, Director of the UK Corporate Leaders Group.As we started 2025 witnessing flooding in Spain and the UK, and the devastating wildfires in the US, it's hard to be optimistic when these events underline that climate change is…

CLG UK reacts to the UK's NDC ICTU submission, setting out how it will deliver on its 2035 carbon emissions reduction target.Today, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) submitted further detail behind the UK's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) headline target to the UNFCCC, ahead of the 10 February 2025 deadline set by the…

CLG Europe and CLG UK groups strengthened as new members join and current members upgrade – leading businesses across sectors continue to showcase determination for a competitive and sustainable future. We are pleased to announce that the Corporate Leaders Groups – for both the UK and the EU – have welcomed new and upgraded members to kickstart bus…

30 January 2025 - Meet the businesses who are pushing boundaries in sustainable innovation.The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s (CISL) Canopy is a vibrant network of purpose-driven innovators and entrepreneurs dedicated to building ventures that put sustainability at the heart of their work and focus on tackling global sustainabi…

On 28 January, CLG Europe was delighted to welcome the group of Business Networks for a Climate Neutral Europe in Brussels.  These business networks from across Europe work together to achieve a climate neutral, nature-positive, and socially inclusive green transition. They met with Members of the European Parliament at a roundtable and dinner to d…

24 January 2025 – CISL's Network is a global community for impact. In 2024, our community surpassed 40,000 members and the scope of CISL’s Network engagement was greater than ever in 2024.  Key moments in 2024 included: The Global Leadership Summit began the year with CISL’s most ambitious Network event convened so far. The summit invited leaders f…

20 January 2025 - CISL has released its yearly impact report, looking back on a pivotal year for the institute and the sustainability movement more widely. Read the full report2024 was a challenging and pivotal year for CISL and the wider sustainability movement. Action taken across the world is not keeping up with the challenges that are being thr…

03 December 2024 - As an official sponsor of the UK's COP29 and COP30 Pavilion, the UK Corporate Leaders Group (CLG UK) increased its presence and visibility at this year’s UN climate convention leading many high-level events, convening cross-sectoral experts and forging stronger business-government engagement.Since its founding in 2005, CLG UK has…

2 December 2024 – The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership today announces that Lindsay Hooper has been appointed as its permanent CEO and Head of Department.Lindsay’s appointment comes at a critical moment for the sustainability movement and for CISL. Following another year of record temperatures, extreme weather events …

Professor Deborah Prentice, Vice-Chancellor, said: "As the world faces unprecedented global difficulties, it looks to universities for solutions. The University of Cambridge is uniquely placed to offer evidence-based insights, and to educate current and future leaders. These tasks are at the heart of CISL’s mission. I look forward to continuing to …

25 November 2024 - We came to COP29 with 4 asks to unlock private sector ambition and galvanise the private sector’s participation in delivering a net zero and nature-positive economy. Here we look back at the takeaways from all of our key discussions on these topics during the conference:  A robust and inclusive New Collective Quantified Goal on c…

25 November 2024 - In the early hours of Sunday morning, COP29 came to a close with a deal. Though this didn't seem likely at times during the negotiations, our CISL experts examine what the deal means and what comes next.From the absence of the wording ‘fossil fuels’ in the text and a lower than hoped New Collective Quantified Goal  (NCQG) of US $…

19 November 2024 – The Ibero-American Business Network for Green Growth (IABNGG) has been launched in an event that took place today in the Spanish Pavilion at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.  The network's main goal is to mobilise the private sector in Latin America in order to boost collaboration and the development of ambitious green policy framework…

18 November 2024 – As we enter the decisive week two of COP29, feelings are mixed on the amount of progress that has been made, with negotiating teams being reminded that “the clock is ticking.” Negotiations in week one took place under the shadow of political tensions, public disagreements and global politics.Early climate targetsCountries includi…