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Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

 


Landmarks for Sustainability: Events and Initiatives that Changed the World

30 January 2015

1 April 2009 – Landmarks for Sustainability is a high impact, quick reference guide to many of the most critical events and initiatives that have shaped our world, and the sustainable development agenda, over the past 20 years and more.

The Top 50 Sustainability Books

26 January 2015

December 2009 – This unique title draws together in one volume some of the best thinking to date on the pressing social, environmental and ethical challenges we face as a society.

Sir Ian Cheshire: Don't fear sustainability

5 December 2014

February 2011 – Sustainability: it needn’t send a ripple of fear through the boardroom! An opinion piece by Sir Ian Cheshire, former Group CEO, Kingfisher plc

Mobility 2020

28 October 2014

2008 – Today, the car is at the heart of personal mobility, offering us independence and our own space – at the price of congestion, pollutants and a rising contribution to climate change. Can we do things better?

Decentralised Energy

28 October 2014

February 2008 - Decentralised Energy business opportunity in resource efficiency and carbon management. The Business Taskforce on Sustainable Consumption and Production was convened by Defra and DTI (now BERR) to bring forward proposals on how to help companies adopt more sustainable patterns of consumption and production (SCP) in ways that boost competitiveness and contribute to economic growth.

Smart Business

28 October 2014

June 2008 – Smart business sustainable solutions for changing times. Business has got the message: sustainability has strategic implications for future competitiveness and success. And smart businesses are looking to sustainability to help transform products and services and unlock new opportunities for growth and profitability.

The Global State of Sustainable Insurance

28 October 2014

October 2009 – This report examines the long-term economic health and resilience of the insurance industry and how material ESG factors must be systematically integrated into underwriting guidelines and product development, and other core insurance processes such as investment management, claims management and sales & marketing.

BSP London Lecture 2001, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland

23 October 2014

15 March 2001 – The Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, delivered the London Lecture of The Prince of Wales’s Business & Sustainability Programme on 15 March, 2001. The lecture, on the topic of Healthy People, Healthy Planet, affirmed the powerful relationships between health, environment, economics and society.

The World in Context

23 October 2014

April 2003 – Sustainable development will remain by far the biggest challenge all the way through to the end of this century. If we get it right, the genius and technological virtuosity of the human species will enable us to fashion elegant, regenerative and genuinely sustainable ways of meeting human needs and aspirations. If we get it wrong, the consequences could indeed be dire.

Facing the Future

23 October 2014

2004 – A collection of contributions from 35 leading thinkers and practitioners associated with The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme (BSP)

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