Sustainability blog

15 January 2024 – In this blog, Pat Dwyer, Founder of the Purpose Business and contributor to CISL’s new online course Governance for a Sustainable Future, guides businesses through the shift required to transform from business-as-usual (B-A-U) to purpose-driven governance, starting with a mindset shift. Pat explores this through the lens of accountability and transparency, critical governance components. Businesses are facing unavoidable demands to be more transparent from increased reporting regulations. Pat considers how a mindset shift will enable business to meet these demands and create new opportunities aligned with a sustainable future.

19 December 2023 - CISL’s Chief Systems Change Officer, Eliot Whittington, examines the COP process, what lessons we can take from this year’s UN Climate Summit in Dubai and why the outcome is always a compromise.

15 December 2023 – Where does a business begin its conversation and work on social justice? While Diversity and Inclusion represent the institutional aspect of social justice, business plays a broader societal role that is more relevant today than ever before.

12 December 2023 - Dr Helen Xiaoqin Ma, an alumna from our Women in Sustainability Innovation accelerator programme, accepted a Purple Plaque Award at the Entopia Building. Purple Plaque Awards are an initiative from InnovateUK to address the gender imbalance in the UK's blue plaques by celebrating inspirational women.