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.
The economy isn’t working - for people or the planet. It's time for a new narrative.
28 June 2024 - Predictably, economic growth takes centre stage on the election trial. But few politicians questions what sort of growth we want, how much, or the purpose of the economy. CISL's Director of Business Strategy, Ben Kellard, discusses why it's time for a new vision.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
