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27 October 2016 – In the first CISL meeting of its kind, over 20 leaders from across the business and investment industries came together for a workshop to discuss their common goal to measure and minimise their impact on the natural world.The workshop brought together CISL’s Natural Capital Leaders Platform and Investment Leaders Group (ILG) to i…

26 July 2016 – The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) will lead the Protocol Application Program on behalf of the Natural Capital Coalition it has been announced today. With increasing pressure on natural resources and the accompanying impact on the environment, more businesses are beginning to realise that it is in their best…

13 July 2016 – Today, the Natural Capital Protocol, a standardised framework for businesses to identify, measure and value their direct and indirect impacts and dependencies on natural capital is launched in London.  On 13 July the Natural Capital Coalition, an international collaboration between 200-plus global partners including the Cambridge Ins…

17 May 2016 – The Prince of Wales, Patron of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, today attended a reception and plenary meeting for a global network of investment managers and asset owners known as the Investment Leaders Group. Read the speech by HRH The Prince of Wales for the CISL Investment Leaders Group Forum at…

9 February 2016 – A new paper ‘The Paris Climate Agreement: Implications for banks, institutional investors, private equity and insurers’ provides analysis of the most pressing points of the Paris Agreement, and other key developments from the climate summit, and concludes that a coherent, strategic response is required of financial institutions.Th…

11 February 2016 – Seven leading global businesses called today on all actors in the cotton industry to accelerate action on natural capital to ensure a sustainable future for the sector. They joined forces with social and environmental initiatives and cotton experts to produce a report that demonstrates the positive natural capital impacts of spec…

25 January 2016 – The importance of natural resource security for dairy production was highlighted today at an event at the House of Lords, on the occasion of the launch of a new report on natural capital and the dairy sector. Produced jointly by the Natural Capital Leaders Platform, hosted by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadersip, a…

30 November 2015 – COP21 international climate talks in Paris opened this morning with speeches from outgoing COP20 President and Peruvian Minister of the Environment Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, this year’s COP21 President, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, and Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Cl…

14 July 2015 – Launch of a new report, commissioned by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office, into the role of governments in the fight against climate change.  The report, Climate Change: A Risk Assessment, was edited and produced by the University of Cambridge's Centre for Science and Policy.Read their views and summary of the report.Read the po…

14 July 2015 – New report highlights the essential role of insurance to support resilience and sustainable development in the face of growing climate risks. New report: 'Insurance regulation for sustainable development: Protecting human rights against climate risks and natural hazards'Risk-based insurance systems enabled by supportive regulation ar…

22 May 2015 – Working with leading experts from the finance sector as part of the Finance Advisory Council to the Green Growth Platform, the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership has produced a briefing note for businesses on financing the low carbon transition.The briefing note suggests:Ensuring access to adequate and timely cost-effec…

1 April 2015 – We welcome two new members to the Natural Capital Leaders Platform.  We are pleased to welcome our newest members Value Retail (a company that specialises exclusively in the creation and operation of luxury outlet shopping destinations) and Kering (a world leader in apparel and accessories and developer of powerful brands) to the Pl…

27 November 2014 – In July 2014, the Nexus Network commissioned 13 think pieces with the remit of scoping and defining nexus approaches, and stimulating debate across the linked domains of food, energy, water and the environment. CISL’s Jake Reynolds and Gemma Cranston have co-written a think piece entitled ‘Nexus thinking: can it slow the Great Ac…

26 November 2013 - Second Nature, a University of Cambridge Natural Capital Leaders Platform event, launched a suite of innovative web-based tools to help global businesses better manage the goods and services from nature upon which they rely at The Royal Society in London. Businesses from a wide range of industry sectors joined Platform members to…

03 June 2014 - Water is an economically strategic resource, provided and regulated by nature and underpins many business activities. Ensuring that water is carefully stewarded and available in sufficient quantity and quality is a subject of vital interest to business, however, to date the management of and investment in water has been disjointed.  …