Our blogs offer timely perspectives from CISL experts and our global network, exploring how leaders are responding to market shifts, managing risk and turning insight into action.
At CISL, we’re committed to building a greener future for everyone
16 March 2023 - Concerns about the environment have become one of the defining issues of our times, writes Eliot Whittington, Chief System Change Officer at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
Driving systemic change within the finance sector: an educator’s perspective
23 February 2023 - Drawing on his experience delivering executive education programmes to leaders in the finance sector, CISL Programme Director Thomas Vergunst considers perceptions of the need for systemic transformation - the extent of the change required, mechanisms for progress and the role of business in delivering transformative change.
Solvency in the age of emergency: how should new EU policy and the industry incorporate risk?
21 February 2023 – Both decisionmakers and insurers must together find a way of addressing the climate and ecological risks that complicate adaptation and mitigation strategies. The revision of EU Solvency rules could be a key opportunity to integrate sustainability in risk management of insurers, argue Ursula Woodburn and Nina Seega.
Is the polycrisis a call for urgent action on Social Injustice?
26 January 2023 - In this blog, Priya Rajasekar and Elspeth Donovan, convenors of the 8-week open online course on Business and Social Justice, argue that the ‘polycrisis’ which has emerged as a buzzword at the recently concluded World Economic Forum at Davos could be addressed effectively through collaborative business leadership and action on social justice. The authors call for a critical and collaborative engagement with the systemic and institutional legacies of social injustice that have permeated business thinking and action as a way to lead the transformation out of this crisis.
Following COP15 how can businesses overcome financial barriers to investing in nature-based solutions?
24 January 2023 – Edmund Dickens and Elizabeth Clark from CISL's Business and Nature team unpick perceived financial barriers to investing in nature, and some methods to overturn these and unlock the opportunities of nature-based solutions.
Collaborative leadership? It’s what a sustainable future in the built environment sector requires.
25 January 2023 - Dr Tim Forman, Senior Research Associate and Deputy Director of the Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment ( IDBE ) postgraduate courses, described how 'shared leadership' was central to the refurbishment of Entopia, the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership's (CISL) new home. A type of collaboration that is vital to navigating the new reality of the built environment sector. This empowering and collaborative approach to sustainability also underpins CISL’s part-time accredited and non-accredited education programmes for built environment professionals.
Communicating purpose: How to activate and embed purpose in your organisation
17 January 2023 - The Great Realignment has shown that current employees, as well as future recruits, make choices based on a company’s values. Zoë Arden, CISL Fellow and an independent leadership and stakeholder engagement specialist examines the significance of having a clear purpose for an organisation and how to bring it to life.
The importance of lifelong learning in Sustainability Leadership
16 December 2022 – Dr Tanja Collavo, Course Director for the Master’s in Sustainability Leadership, discusses the importance of lifelong learning and its relationship to the new Master’s in Sustainability Leadership Flexible Route, launching in September 2023. Knowledge - of best practice, of issues to be tackled, of their underlying root causes, and of existing solutions - is fundamental to realise positive social and environmental impact.
Delivering a better future for people, nature and planet
30 November 2022 - In her foreword to CISL’s inaugural annual review, CISL Director and CEO Clare Shine reflects on the challenges we face in this critical decade and how CISL aims to create a new sustainability narrative.
A community of action: Celebrating the impact stories of our global CISL Network
30 November 2022 - CISL Fellow Zoë Arden introduces impact stories from our global CISL Network, celebrating individuals who are driving change in their industries and communities.
