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Measuring decent work for better investment decisions: integral for a just transition to net zero

21 September 2022 - Dr Mohsen Gul, Senior Project Manager, Centre for Sustainable Finance reflects on why a just transition to net zero necessitates measuring decent work for better investment decisions. The Just Transition Declaration, agreed upon at UN Climate Conference COP26, recognises the...

Board Leadership – The Shifting Sands Of Corporate Governance

1 September 2022 - This blog is the second in a series from CISL Fellow, Professor Richard Calland. It builds on the over-arching argument about why boards matter and why boards must lead, by exploring the emerging corporate law and governance terrain. It concludes by laying the gauntlet for directors to start focusing on how they lead and how they govern through the much clearer multi-focal lens of direction, oversight and accountability, in direct service of organizational purpose.

Getting buy-in for your NbS project

24 August 2022 - CISL’s Dr Gemma Cranston, Director, Business & Nature, Centre for Business Transformation and Adrian Greet, Senior Advisor, Business & Nature, Centre for Business Transformation, explain how Decision-making in a nature positive world can help get the buy-in for your nature-based solutions (NbS) project.

An SME's journey to decarbonisation: Brilliant Noise

23 August 2022 - Brilliant Noise is a strategic marketing partner for global brands. Combining the strengths of a management consultancy and creative agency, the Brighton-based SME transforms businesses through data-led strategy, planning and purposeful content. Chief Commercial Officer and co-founder Maddy Cooper, shares her personal insights on Brilliant Noise’s journey to net zero and their mission to help other businesses do the same.

Systems Thinking – from rhetoric to action

23 August 2022 - Dr Theo Hacking, CISL’s Director for Postgraduate Programmes and Research Strategy, reflects on the need for clarity in the use of systems thinking by sharing some of the common misconceptions that can lead to systems-related terms and concepts being misconstrued or devalued by false expectations.

School's out - learning's in

12 August 2022 - We don’t need a summer makeover, we need a mindset makeover: How existing and aspiring leaders can move from being summer-ready for a short-term break to being impact-ready for long-term change.

Why the end to Australia’s climate wars isn’t enough

27 June 2022 - Henrietta Ardlie, a sustainability consultant at One Brave Step and a recent participant in our Business Sustainability Management programme, discusses change in Australia's politics, the energy crisis and the need to focus on the larger picture of sustainability.

The built environment industry needs to undergo radical change to effectively respond to the climate emergency – how should that happen?

CISL's Director and CEO Clare Shine was invited to take part in a recent discussion from the Edge's "Big Issue" webinar series. The webinars focused on materials, the real impact of climate change on human health and culminating in the degree of radical change which the construction/built environment industry must undergo to respond to the climate and ecological emergency. This event summary focuses on the ways in which the built environment industry must undergo radical change to effectively respond to the climate emergency.

The modern food system – ready for the next revolution.

21 June 2022 - David Farrell, founding partner of Blue North Sustainability and co-lead of CISL's Sustainability Practitioner Programme in South Africa, discusses food, global sustainability and how we approach the challenges of feeding the world.

The European Commission’s plans to label fossil fuel projects as ‘green’ in the taxonomy might hamper the EU’s clean energy transition

9 June 2022 - Ahead of the European Parliament’s vote on the Taxonomy Delegated Act, Nina Seega, from Centre for Sustainable Finance and Ursula Woodburn from the European Corporate Leaders Group explain why labelling fossil fuel projects as ‘green’ in the EU taxonomy might hamper the clean energy transition.

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Measuring decent work for better investment decisions: integral for a just transition to net zero

Board Leadership – The Shifting Sands Of Corporate Governance

Getting buy-in for your NbS project

An SME's journey to decarbonisation: Brilliant Noise

Systems Thinking – from rhetoric to action

School's out - learning's in

Why the end to Australia’s climate wars isn’t enough

The built environment industry needs to undergo radical change to effectively respond to the climate emergency – how should that happen?

The modern food system – ready for the next revolution.

The European Commission’s plans to label fossil fuel projects as ‘green’ in the taxonomy might hamper the EU’s clean energy transition

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