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.
4 December 2024 - In this blog, Dr Jan Rosenow, CISL Senior Associate and course lead of the new self-paced online course, Renewable Energy Foundations for Business, explains why he’s an energy transition optimist. There are common energy fallacies that stand in the way of the transition to clean energy, he discusses, and the urgent need for international co-operation and for business to drive the transition. There are also many reasons to be optimistic.
Why sustainability should be integrated into all business functions
27 November 2024 - In this blog, Oliver Dudok van Heel, CISL Fellow and course lead of the Sustainable Business Foundations self-paced online course, discusses the benefits of understanding sustainability as a cross-functional business opportunity to drive its agenda.
What is sustainability innovation and why does it matter?
27 November 2024 - Jie Zhou, Head of International Engagement for CISL’s Innovation team, discusses why sustainability-led innovation is crucial for both startups and established businesses to thrive in a rapidly changing world. This blog builds on CISL's recent innovation thought piece , which reflects on the importance of innovators helping to build the markets we need for a more sustainable and equitable future.
26 November 2024 - CISL’s Systems Change Officer, Eliot Whittington, unpacks this year’s dramatic UN climate negotiations – what was achieved, who was present, and what needs to happen next.
A day in the life of a Diploma in Sustainable Business student
22 November 2024 – Sonia Ventosa García-Morato, Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability Manager at Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company and student on the Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Business, shares her experience of studying the programme and details what a day looks like during one of her residential workshops in Cambridge, UK.
22 November 2024 – First published in The Mint magazine, Ellie Standen explains how levies break, dividends divide and it’s time to take back the power industry into the public sector.
A day in the life of a Master's in Sustainability Leadership student
15 November 2024 – Kristin Edie, Vice President, Enterprise Sustainability at Hallmark and student on the Master’s in Sustainability Leadership, shares her experience of studying the programme and details what a day looks like during one of her residential workshops in Cambridge, UK.
A day in the life of a Master’s in Sustainability Leadership student
11 November 2024 - Barbora Kotoun, Global Leader for Circularity at IKEA and student on the Master’s in Sustainability Leadership. Barbora shares her experience of studying the programme and details what a day looks like during one of her residential workshops in Cambridge, UK.
A radical transformation of our economies is the only way to save nature, and ourselves
4 November 2024 - After two weeks of negotiations last week in Cali, Colombia, the meeting was suspended with no overall agreement on a path forward on “resource mobilisation." CISL's Chief Innovation Officer, James Cole, looks back at happened at COP16, and asks what comes next.
Why we need new laws to end coal, oil and gas – now
22 October 2024 - Katherine Quinn writes in Climate Home News: Introducing strong policies to accelerate the rollout of renewables, coupled with a rapid, legally implemented phase-out of fossil fuels, may be our best hope for curbing global warming.
