Blogs

11 September 2023 - Caroline Lee and Dr Catherine Hammant, part of CISL’s Foresight team, discuss the changing initiatives offered by supermarkets to support community wellbeing as a response to the tougher economic conditions felt by their customers, staff, suppliers and local areas.The cost of living crisis has deepened inequalities across the UK…

1 September 2023 - In the context of global warming, social justice calls for a rethink on how 'business as usual' breaches the boundaries of Earth's systems that preserve life and wellbeing and what that means for the most marginalised.Why should business be concerned with social justice? Are social and environmental justice related? What has this…

21 August 2023 - Lucy Bruzzone, Programme Director at CISL, provides reflections on Munish Datta's blog 'Sustainable real estate - a constellation of risks and opportunities', considers how and why stakeholders must adopt the recommendations presented in the blog and gives recommendations for further reading. This month, Munish Datta provided insi…

29 August 2023: First published in The Lighthouse, BNP Paribas REIM’s European Property Market Outlook, this blog by Munish Datta explores the constellation of risks and opportunities for sustainable real estate. Here, Lucy Bruzzone provides reflections and recommendations on ‘what next?’.Real estate absolutely underpins human society. It provides …

21 August 2023 - Prof. Dr Wayne Visser explores the question:Why should business care about sustainability issues like climate change, income inequality, biodiversity loss and human rights?  Some would say it’s because business has a moral duty to do what is right or good. We can call this view the moral case for sustainability. Others point out th…

16 August 2023 - Emi Sugiyama is a Sustainability Consultant with PwC Japan and a student on the Master of Studies in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE). Emi shared her experience of the programme and has detailed what an average day looked like for her during her final residential workshop in Cambridge, UK.My day begins… wit…

28 July 2023 - Dr Nina Seega and Dr Mohsen Gul from CISL’s Centre for Sustainable Finance highlight ways private capital can be mobilised to fulfil the global climate finance promise.The global climate crisis is a challenge that requires urgent attention and significant resources. As the world grapples with the need to finance climate change mitiga…

04 July 2023 - Nico van der Merwe, Signify's UK&I CEO, explains how energy efficiency measures such as the retrofitting of smart LEDs can provide green impacts across society in combination with the switch to renewable energy.The IPCC Climate Change 2023 report has offered the world a stark reminder of what is at stake if we fail to take urgent cli…

29 June 2023 - CISL’s Canopy team ran a series of collaborative workshops and meetings in Beijing, Shanghai, Guanzhou and Hong Kong to map and engage local and international stakeholders supporting sustainability innovation in China.   The events were part of CISL’s Centre for Sino UK Sustainability Innovation. The team met with sustainability expe…

28 June 2023 - For 29 years, The Prince of Wales’s Business & Sustainability Programme(BSP) has helped over 4,500 senior executives translate complex sustainability trends into strategic business decisions, supporting individual leadership, business strategy and systemic change. Here, we hear from two alumni of the inaugural The Prince of Wales’s B…

23 June 2023 -  What happened at the Bonn Climate Change Conference? Our Senior Programme Manager, Katherine Quinn, reports back...Last week, the Bonn Climate Change Conference wrapped up after two weeks of discord and gridlock. Often called the ‘SBs’ (short for Subsidiary Bodies) or the ‘Bonn Intersessional’, the meeting takes place annually at th…

26 April 2023 - How traditional organisations can navigate the space of corporate activism, by Aileen Noonan, Dina Khalifa and Jennifer Howard-Grenville.As the world witnesses growing socio-political challenges, many organizations have expanded their societal role by taking public stances on issues such as immigration, Black Lives Matter, and anti-…

25 April 2023 - Neiad Adams-Austin is a Traffic Engineer with the London Borough of Waltham Forest and a student on the Master of Studies in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE). Neiad has shared his experience of the programme and has detailed what an average day looks like for him during one of the residential workshops in Ca…

5 April 2023 - Sonia Green-Browne is a Principal Engineer with Graphite Engineering Ltd and a student on the Master of Studies in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE). Sonia has shared her experience of the programme and has detailed what an average day looks like for her during one of the residential workshops in Cambridge, UK…

16 March 2023 - Diversity is critical for board leadership. This is a central plank of our point of view. But what sort of diversity? In this fourth in a series of blogs examining questions of board leadership and governance, Prof Richard Calland tries to get under the bonnet of a difficult and delicate subject.“Diversity” can mean different things…