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20 February 2025 - CISL Ambassadors joined CISL CEO, Lindsay Hooper, for a Summit aimed at enhancing our understanding of the regional needs of our Network members and sharing the incredible engagement of our Network members globally.CISL’s Ambassadors play an invaluable role in our mission, which is to connect CISL 40,000 Network members within a …

18 February 2025 – The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has launched white label training materials to help corporates and financial institutions build their nature-related capabilities. We are delighted to share that the  TNFD has launched a suite of ‘white label’ training materials that can be used by training providers an…

7 February 2025 – Dr Gabriel Okello won the Early Career Researcher award at the prestigious Cambridge Awards for Research Impact and Engagement earlier this week. Gabriel is The King's Global Sustainability Fellow in Air Quality and NCDS, supported by AstraZeneca. His work applies multidisciplinary, collaborative approaches to tackle air pollution…

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…

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…

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…

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…

13 November 2024 – In an opinion piece first published by Reuters, CISL's interim CEO, Lindsay Hooper, explores how we can reach net zero and who can make it happen.The imperative to achieve net zero isn’t grounded in ideology or political world views, but in the hard and fast laws of nature. Net zero is essential to securing long-term resilience a…

4 November 2024 - COP16 ended with the meeting suspended with no overall agreement on a path forward on “resource mobilisation." What will be the ramifications for progress towards a sustainable future? Dr Nina Seega, CISL’s Director of Sustainable Finance, was part of the delegation who attended the conference in Cali, Colombia. She reflected: “CO…