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Comment: This is no time to stand back. Business must lead the way to a more sustainable world

25 June 2024 - CISL's Interim CEO, Lindsay Hooper, writes: In an era of disruptions, polarisation, complexity and increasingly intricate environmental debates, the core business case for sustainability remains: business cannot thrive on a dead planet.

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Historic nature law passes in Europe: now we need to finance it

24 June 2024 – Dr Nina Seega, Director of CISL’s Centre for Sustainable Finance, asks what's needed for the Nature Restoration Law to be a success.

Chief Sustainability Officers come together to explore how organisations can deliver system change for a sustainable economy

17 June 2024 - Ben Kellard, Director of Business Strategy, reflects on the challenges and enabling practices that emerged from discussions with cross-sectoral CSOs at our recent Forum.

What do businesses need to know about policy and regulations in sustainability? - The EU example

03 June 2024 – Dr Martin Porter, Executive Chair, CISL Europe, discusses the crucial need for sustainable business to be directed by public policy and for business to embrace its role in activating change for a sustainable future.

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The world is going to the polls in 2024: what could it mean for the future of our planet?

31 May 2024 – With a raft of global elections in process or looming, and with geopolitical tensions and conflict dominating political agendas and decision-making fora, we face a decade more important than any other. CISL Directors offer their views on the direction of travel needed in this most pivotal year.

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Rethinking the housing crisis – three radical ideas to fix the current trajectory

28 May 2024 - Dr Kayla Friedman, Course Director for the Master’s and Postgraduate Certificate in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE), with The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), showcases her ideas to address the housing situation the UK is facing.

Towards Climate-Smart Buildings and Infrastructure: A Call to Built Environment Practitioners

24 May 2024 - Dr Tim Forman, Senior Teaching Associate and Course Director of the Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment postgraduate courses, calls for built environment practitioners to consider climate change and climate risk more holistically to achieve ‘climate-smart’ buildings and infrastructure.

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Farmer protests and Just Stop Oil are two sides of the same coin

2 May 2024 - The government has warmed to one group of protesters while clamping down on others. Writing in the New Statesman , Priya Rajasekar explores the politics of protest and the implications for business.

Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: What are the new boundaries of the firm?

30 April 2024 - Dr Livia Ventura, Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellow, explains how the recently approved Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive by the European Parliament will impact businesses across Europe and beyond.

Fishermen on wooden boats. Lake Kivu, Rwanda

Expanding Horizons - What business leaders can learn from social change programmes in Africa’s Great Lakes Region?

25 April 2024 – Dr Nicoletta Piccolrovazzi considers key lessons business leaders can draw from social change programmes.

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Comment: This is no time to stand back. Business must lead the way to a more sustainable world

Historic nature law passes in Europe: now we need to finance it

Chief Sustainability Officers come together to explore how organisations can deliver system change for a sustainable economy

What do businesses need to know about policy and regulations in sustainability? - The EU example

The world is going to the polls in 2024: what could it mean for the future of our planet?

Rethinking the housing crisis – three radical ideas to fix the current trajectory

Towards Climate-Smart Buildings and Infrastructure: A Call to Built Environment Practitioners

Farmer protests and Just Stop Oil are two sides of the same coin

Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: What are the new boundaries of the firm?

Expanding Horizons - What business leaders can learn from social change programmes in Africa’s Great Lakes Region?

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