Blogs

30 November 2022 - In this third in a series of blogs on Board Leadership, CISL Fellow Prof. Richard Calland builds on the argument about the new corporate governance framework for understanding the leadership responsibility of the board by shifting from the legal and conceptual issues of principle to the ‘how’ of governance. Specifically, what are…

11 November 2022 - How do organisations keep the net zero transformation central to their strategies during times of extreme volatility and uncertainty? Marking the launch of CISL's framework to support businesses on their decarbonisation journeys, Dr James MacPherson, Programme Manager and Bianca Drotleff, Project Manager from CISL’s Centre for Bu…

27 September 2022 - CISL Fellow, and Co Convenor and Head Tutor of the Sustainable Marketing, Media & Creative course, Dr Victoria Hurth discusses the conflict and opportunity in the relationship between marketing and purpose. Will the development of purpose-led marketing practices help lead the organisations and society to a positive future, or wi…

30 September 2022 - Private investment is needed for Africa to adopt renewable energy. Here’s why that investment makes senseClare Shine is the CEO and director of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.At last, the world is waking up to the climate-nature emergency. Not because of any great scientific breakthrough; new…

21 September 2022 - Dr Mohsen Gul, Senior Project Manager, Centre for Sustainable Finance reflects on why a just transition to net zero necessitates measuring decent work for better investment decisions.The Just Transition Declaration, agreed upon at UN Climate Conference COP26, recognises the need to ensure that no one is left behind in the transi…

1 September 2022 - This blog is the second in a series from CISL Fellow, Professor Richard Calland. It builds on the over-arching argument about why boards matter and why boards must lead, by exploring the emerging corporate law and governance terrain. It concludes by laying the gauntlet for directors to start focusing on how they lead and how they…

24 August 2022 - CISL’s Dr Gemma Cranston, Director, Business & Nature, Centre for Business Transformation and Adrian Greet, Senior Advisor, Business & Nature, Centre for Business Transformation, explain how Decision-making in a nature positive world can help get the buy-in for your nature-based solutions (NbS) project. GC – With a growing number o…

23 August 2022 - Brilliant Noise is a strategic marketing partner for global brands. Combining the strengths of a management consultancy and creative agency, the Brighton-based SME transforms businesses through data-led strategy, planning and purposeful content. Chief Commercial Officer and co-founder Maddy Cooper, shares her personal insights on B…

23 August 2022 - Dr Theo Hacking, CISL’s Director for Postgraduate Programmes and Research Strategy, reflects on the need for clarity in the use of systems thinking by sharing some of the common misconceptions that can lead to systems-related terms and concepts being misconstrued or devalued by false expectations.It is now widely accepted that syst…

12 August 2022 - We don’t need a summer makeover, we need a mindset makeover: How existing and aspiring leaders can move from being summer-ready for a short-term break to being impact-ready for long-term change.In Europe, and some other parts of the world, a few more weeks of summer still stretch ahead. These are the so-called halcyon days of ‘scho…

27 June 2022 - Henrietta Ardlie, a sustainability consultant at One Brave Step, discusses change in Australia's politics, the energy crisis and the need to focus on the larger picture of sustainability.Early on Sunday morning, 22 May, I jumped in my car and, as I always do, turned on the radio. Within minutes, I found myself crying. Climate change …

CISL's Director and CEO Clare Shine was invited to take part in a recent discussion from the Edge's "Big Issue" webinar series. The webinars focused on materials, the real impact of climate change on human health and culminating in the degree of radical change which the construction/built environment industry must undergo to respond to the climate …

21 June 2022 - David Farrell, founding partner of Blue North Sustainability and co-lead of CISL's Sustainability Practitioner Programme in South Africa, discusses food, global sustainability and how we approach the challenges of feeding the world.Food systems have undergone multiple revolutions since the dawn of agriculture 12 thousand years ago. E…

9 June 2022 - Ahead of the European Parliament’s vote on the Taxonomy Delegated Act, Nina Seega, from Centre for Sustainable Finance and Ursula Woodburn from the European Corporate Leaders Group explain why labelling fossil fuel projects as ‘green’ in the EU taxonomy might hamper the clean energy transition.The EU Taxonomy Regulation published in 2…

26 May 2022 - Anna Barford and Jane Nelson discuss the need for, and benefits of paying living wages and discuss the key findings of their report The case for living wages: How paying living wages improves business performance and tackles poverty.It can be difficult to see a way out of the current cost of living crisis. Prices continue to rise, and…