8 Mar 2023
CISL’s sustainable offices shortlisted for the Architects’ Journal Retrofit Awards
6 March 2023 – Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s (CISL) sustainable office building and green business hub, Entopia, has been shortlisted for the AJ Retrofit Awards.The Entopia Building is an energy-efficient, sustainable retrofit. What used to be a 1930s telephone exchange is now a world-leading example of ‘deep green’ retrofit, …
22 Feb 2023
CISL is offering a free sustainability programme to local businesses in Cambridge
22 February 2023 - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is running a free programme for businesses in the local area who want to learn how to improve their sustainability credentials. The in-person workshop, Sustainability essentials for your SME/Startup will include keynote speakers, case studies, networking opportunities, and …
15 Feb 2023
Three new impact-led businesses join CISL’s sustainable startup hub in Cambridge
15 February 2023 - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) welcomes three new, impact-led businesses as official members of its Canopy innovation hub. Advanced Infrastructure, Perpendicular Architecture, and New Allotment are the latest to join the community, with a range of focus from tackling the climate crisis through the built …
6 Feb 2023
Businesses, entrepreneurs, green growth groups and leading climate NGOs welcome EU Green Deal Industrial Plan and call on bloc to increase its speed, scale and focus
8 February 2023 - Over forty organisations representing business innovation, green growth associations, clean tech entrepreneurs, think-tanks, institutes and NGOs are calling on the EU to make a success of the proposed Green Deal Industrial Plan.
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20 Jan 2023
ClimateWise Principles Review 2022 indicates steady progress and highlights need for insurers, reinsurers and brokers to become long-term partners to the real economy
23 January 2023 - The ClimateWise Principles Independent Review 2022 shows member insurance industry firms have made progress in disclosing their preparedness and response to climate change. ClimateWise, convened by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is in its fourteenth year of reporting against the Climat…
19 Dec 2022
COP15 lays cornerstone for global biodiversity protection and prioritisation but fails to agree key targets to secure scale and pace of change
19 December 2022 - The UN biodiversity summit in Montreal, under the presidency of China, has agreed a package that includes the world’s largest area-based commitment to biodiversity conservation ever made. Within the 30 by 30 goal of the agreement, negotiated by more than 190 countries and setting out protection of 30% of the world’s land and 30%…
21 Nov 2022
Major breakthrough on loss and damage at COP27 addresses impacts of climate change but talks fail to move forward on limiting causes
21 November 2022 - COP27 has agreed an historic breakthrough on a new fund for loss and damage to support countries most vulnerable to the devastating impacts of climate change. But the Sharm El-Sheikh talks made little headway on the high levels of ambition required to reduce emissions and reach the goals of the Paris and Glasgow agreements. Gains…
28 Oct 2022
CISL's new sustainable startup hub welcomes electric motor innovator as first business
28 October 2022 - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) announces sustainable startup Monumo as the first official member of its newly launched Canopy business hub.Monumo is an electromagnetic engineering company setting out to reinvent the electric motor. Electric motors are an increasingly vital technology in today’s world, us…
5 Oct 2022
CISL programme director heads up all-women team to Antarctica to oversee wildlife monitoring and running world’s most southerly Post Office
5 October 2022 - Built environment and China specialist Lucy Bruzzone is travelling 9,000 miles as part of an expedition to Goudier Island in the Antarctic Peninsula to take up some of the most remote jobs in the world. The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) project received a record 6,000 expressions of interest and 4,000 job applications in Apr…
16 Sep 2022
New poll indicates strong business appetite for net zero regulation
21 Sept 2022 - An overwhelming majority of business leaders surveyed in seven major economies agree government policies are necessary to deliver the net zero transition. A new YouGov poll commissioned by the University of Cambridge institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) finds eight in 10 leaders of large businesses across five continents s…
9 Sep 2022
We are deeply saddened at the passing of Her Majesty The Queen.
9 September 2022 - CISL Director and CEO, Clare Shine, said: “We are deeply saddened by the death of Her Majesty The Queen. Throughout her long reign she provided wise and principled leadership that was felt around the world, far beyond the borders of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. Her humility, her warmth and her commitment to service an…
9 Aug 2022
Entopia Building achieves EnerPHit Classic certification
10 August 2022 - The Entopia Building has been awarded the prestigious EnerPHit Classic certification by the Passive House Institute, a significant moment for a project that has transformed a 1930s telephone exchange into an ultra-efficient office-space meeting the highest possible sustainability standards. Requiring just 15 per cent of the energy…
7 Jun 2022
CISL joins the African Natural Capital Alliance as a knowledge partner
8 June 2022 - The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) has joined the African Natural Capital Alliance (ANCA) as a knowledge partner. The Alliance aims to coordinate policies and practices at financial institutions, companies, regulators and policymakers towards the growth and protection of Africa’s natural resourc…
25 May 2022
Neighbourhood planning has potential to boost wellbeing, according to new research
25 May 2022 - New research highlights a role for neighbourhood planning in improving wellbeing for ageing populationsNew research for the NIHR School for Public Health*, co-authored by CISL Global Sustainability Fellow Caroline Lee, explores the evidence, theory and policy developments relating to place-based planning for health and well-being. It …
24 May 2022
CISL joins Science Based Targets Network as NGO partner
24 May 2022 – CISL is joining the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN), a collaboration of leading global non-profits and mission driven organizations working to shape private sector impacts on the environment by using science-based targets for nature to empower companies to measure their contribution to a nature-positive economy.The SBTN is part o…
