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How green skills are reshaping organisational value

30 October 2025 - The UK Government’s Clean Energy Jobs Plan, announced in October 2025, signals a major shift in the skills and investment landscape. With a bold ambition to double clean energy employment by 2030 — creating over 400,000 new roles — the plan commits significant funding to build high-quality, well-paid jobs across the country. It calls for deep collaboration between business, government and education to close the green skills gap, establish new Technical Excellence Colleges, and embed sustainability into the heart of economic growth.

Changing the story in the age of disruption

10 November 2025 - In today’s era of profound disruption, the strategic landscape for sustainability has shifted irreversibly. Businesses face unprecedented complexity and risk, driven by geopolitical volatility, cyber threats, natural disasters, and escalating regulatory demand. In this blog, Phil Hazell discusses why sustainability must be woven into core business strategy, with leadership embracing disruptive innovation and radical collaboration across supply chains.

5 things I learnt from the Sustainable Marketing online course

23 October 2025 - Discover five powerful insights from the Sustainable Marketing course at CISL that reshaped how I view marketing’s role in driving systemic change. From purpose-led strategy to citizen-centric storytelling, this journey revealed how marketing can inspire wellbeing for people, business, and planet.

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What does sustainability leadership really look like in practice? Insights from CISL’s Postgraduate Programmes

23 October 2025 - In an age of disruption, business leaders are navigating converging pressures — climate instability, social inequality, digital transformation, and shifting investor expectations. For many, sustainability has moved from the margins to the centre of strategy, not only as a moral imperative but as a drive of competitiveness and innovation.

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Building Something Better: Confidence, Coalitions and Change

14 October 2025 - Our CEO, Lindsay Hooper sets out CISL's business leadership agenda to help leaders ‘be part of building something better.’

Sustainability leadership under pressure: The challenge of Gaza

9 October 2025 - Lindsay Hooper, CEO at CISL, writes that today’s crises – from Gaza to AI governance – expose a deeper question: will shared rules and rights endure, or be eroded by raw power? She argues that businesses cannot stay passive, since their long-term interests depend on markets grounded in human rights and the rule of law, and true sustainability leadership requires defending both environmental and social foundations.

Drilling into decline: The flawed logic of Kemi Badenoch's oil gamble

9 October 2025- The Conservative leader's pledge to 'get all of our gas out of the North Sea' appears designed more for the politics of opposition than the realities of government, as it crumbles under scrutiny, writes CISL’s Chief Systems Change Officer, Eliot Whittington.

Middle powers must step up to salvage G20 and the fragile multilateral order

9 October 2025 - Donald Trump, the godfather of modern ‘anti-globalism’, has injected a dose of toxic precarity into international multilateral and trade relations, including the G20.

If not net zero, then what?

8 October 2025 - There is a clear role for companies of all sizes to speak up and share positive stories of how net zero is transforming their businesses, local communities, regions and the wider economy, writes Bev Cornaby, director of the Corporate Leaders Group UK.

Steering Into the storm: How US deregulation risks global financial crisis

8 October 2025 - President Trump is now actively dismantling mechanisms designed to identify and manage systemic financial and climate risks, writes Eliot Whittington, executive director of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).

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How green skills are reshaping organisational value

Changing the story in the age of disruption

5 things I learnt from the Sustainable Marketing online course

What does sustainability leadership really look like in practice? Insights from CISL’s Postgraduate Programmes

Building Something Better: Confidence, Coalitions and Change

Sustainability leadership under pressure: The challenge of Gaza

Drilling into decline: The flawed logic of Kemi Badenoch's oil gamble

Middle powers must step up to salvage G20 and the fragile multilateral order

If not net zero, then what?

Steering Into the storm: How US deregulation risks global financial crisis

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