Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

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Breaking Down Silos: Navigating the Intersection of Environmental and Social risks for Investors

11 March 2026 - Environmental and social risks are compounding across economies and portfolios, yet most risk frameworks assess them in isolation. This report provides a practical, systems-based approach to help investors understand how these interconnected risks amplify financial exposure – particularly in high-impact sectors like agrifood – and o…
Scaling Finance for Nature: A primer on what financial institutions are doing today

6 October 2025 – A primer by CISL and A-Track partners examines what financial institutions can already do – today – to scale action on nature Download the reportAboutNature (positive) finance is often narrowly perceived only as nature conservation finance, or ‘financing green’ with low financial returns, making it unsuitable and unattractive for p…
Beyond the Myths: From Perceptions to Practice in Scaling Blended Finance to EMDEs

10 July 2025 – Despite the promise of blended finance to mobilise private capital in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) at scale, persistent risk perceptions, ecosystem fragmentation, and structural barriers continue to hinder scale. This practitioner-led report distils insights from key stakeholders to unpack the current perceptions…
MUFG joins CISL's Investment Leaders Group

15 May 2025 - MUFG Asset Management (MUFG AM),* under its financial group MUFG, is the latest organisation to join the Investment Leaders Group (ILG), underlining its initiatives to promote sustainable investing and commitment to advancing economic, social and environmental sustainability throughout the investment chain. Partnering with MUFG AM, a …
Investing in Tomorrow: A Guide to Building Climate-Resilient Investment Portfolios

15 January 2025 - The climate crisis demands immediate attention—not only to mitigate risks but to adapt and build resilience. This guide serves as a roadmap for investors to build climate resilience within their portfolios and invest in systemic resilience through engagement with the broader ecosystem. Download the guideDeveloped by the Investment…
Scaling Finance for Nature: Barrier Breakdown

15 October 2024 - Private capital can play a critical role in closing the US$700 billion annual biodiversity finance gap and addressing nature’s decline. The report uses the mitigation hierarchy as a lens through which to view how nature finance can contribute towards the goals of the Global Biodiversity Framework. Read the reportThe Centre for Sus…
Let’s Discuss Nature with Climate: Engagement Guide

9 October 2023 – Building on the nature-related finance collaboration between the Banking Environment Initiative (BEI) and Investment Leaders Group (ILG), CISL has published a new Engagement Guide to support the market-wide transformation towards a net-zero and nature-positive economy by evolving the interaction between banks and investment manager…
Integrating climate and nature: The rationale for financial institutions

27 September 2022 – Building on the nature-related financial risks collaboration between the Banking Environment Initiative (BEI) and Investment Leaders Group (ILG), CISL has published a new report detailing the importance of an integrated approach to addressing environmental challenges, encompassing climate and other nature-related issues.Download…
Investing in quality jobs for a just transition

22 September 2022 - Building on the ILG's Sustainable Investment Framework, the group have published two reports exploring the key concepts, initiatives, and investment impacts on decent work. This paves the way for the development of a simple, robust, and transparent metric for investors to measure and report both the quantitative and qualitative …
Integrating Nature: The case for action on nature-related financial risks

7 April 2022 – The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) in collaboration with banks and investment managers has detailed the case for integrating nature-related risks into financial decisions.Nature loss poses highly material financial risksIf nature is not protected, at least USD 10 trillion of GDP will be lost by…
Understanding the climate performance of investment funds

29 July 2021 – Understanding the climate performance of investment funds should be made simple to all investors. Analysis from CISL’s Investment Leaders Group (ILG) found that the present disclosure of fund performance does not allow investors to understand and compare the alignment of funds with the Paris Agreement on climate change. The latest re…
Handbook for Nature-related Financial Risks: Key concepts and a framework for identification

1 March 2021 – The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) has published a handbook for understanding and identifying nature-related financial risks.Identifying how nature loss poses financial risksNature loss poses financial risks, with more than half of global GDP highly or moderately dependent on nature. Dutch fina…
Robeco becomes newest member of CISL’s Investment Leaders Group

23 July 2020 – Robeco is the latest organisation to join the Investment Leaders Group (ILG), a voluntary member initiative striving to create an investment chain that prioritises economic, social and environmental sustainability. The ILG is convened by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).Victor Verberk, Deputy…
Walking the talk: Understanding consumer demand for sustainable investing

22 October 2019 – This study, commissioned by the Investment Leaders Group (ILG), provides insight into how decision-making behavior is influenced by the availability of information on the environmental and social impact of funds alongside standard financial data.Download the report hereWhile the financial performance of funds is readily accessible…
Working paper finds that better disclosures are needed to assess long-term orientation of investment funds

20 March 2019 – The Investment Leaders Group found that the data necessary to enable institutional and retail investors to assess the long-term orientation of the investment funds is not currently available. The Investment Leaders Group (ILG), in co-operation with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), has appli…