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Read more at: The Entopia Building: Creating a healthy workplace
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The Entopia Building: Creating a healthy workplace

7 December 2021 - Wendy Bishop, Architype’s associate and lead architect for Entopia has been working on architectural and Passivhaus design of the project, and ways to reduce embodied carbon, since it began.


Read more at: Beyond net zero: People, nature and climate

Beyond net zero: People, nature and climate

3 December 2021 - Nick Villiers, Director of CISL’s Centre for Sustainable Finance, reflects on the role of the finance industry in taking a more active and assertive role in supporting, enabling and accelerating the transition to a more regenerative economy.


Read more at: The moment of truth?
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The moment of truth?

15 November 2021 - Eliot Whittington, Director of the Corporate Leaders Groups, argues COP26 was not the failure some have accused it of being - but now the onus is on businesses to prove their critics wrong


Read more at: Implementing nature-based solutions in the value chain – anticipating and surmounting the internal challenges to getting the green light
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Implementing nature-based solutions in the value chain – anticipating and surmounting the internal challenges to getting the green light

October 2021 - Catherine Weller, from CISL’s Centre for Business Transformation, explains that, when it comes to going ahead with nature-based solution projects, company decision-making processes need to be fit for purpose.


Read more at: The Nature COP in Kunming opens today – a further step towards nature-positive targets for businesses
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The Nature COP in Kunming opens today – a further step towards nature-positive targets for businesses

11 October 2021 - Catherine Weller, from CISL’s Business & Nature team, explores expectations as the first part of the Kunming Nature COP gets underway and explains why business should be active in demanding clear and ambitious targets.


Read more at: The road to Entopia
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The road to Entopia

30 September 2021 - Dame Polly Courtice, Emeritus Founder Director of the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership and Clare Shine, current Director and CEO reflect on CISL’s journey so far, and what the future holds as we move to our innovative new HQ, Entopia.


Read more at: Developing leadership for the future we want

Developing leadership for the future we want

30 September 2021 - Our new Course Director for CISL’s Master’s in Sustainability Leadership, Emre Usenmez, reflects on how the programme is preparing future leaders to tackle global challenges in a post-covid world


Read more at: The future of sustainability in the built environment - a Q&A with Munish Datta
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The future of sustainability in the built environment - a Q&A with Munish Datta

27 September 2021 - Munish Datta is director at UK Green Building Council where he is responsible for leading the organisations membership strategy and enabling the delivery of its mission to radically improve the sustainability of the built environment. As a Fellow at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, he also empowers senior business leaders & organisations to tackle critical global challenges.


Read more at: A global programme for senior leaders in a rapidly changing world
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A global programme for senior leaders in a rapidly changing world

27 August 2021 - In the third of our quarterly blogs, Alice Spencer, Programme Director and Global Lead for HRH The Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability Programme (BSP), explores the significance of the international focus of our programmes to start a conversation about why now, more than ever, global action must occur.


Read more at: Q&A with CISL Director and CEO, Clare Shine
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Q&A with CISL Director and CEO, Clare Shine

July 2021 - After three months as Director and CEO of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), Clare Shine shares her thoughts on what's next for the sustainability agenda, and the need for a collective focus on people, nature and climate.


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