Blogs

26 April 2022 - CISL supported the UKRI Circular Economy Hub (CE-Hub) as it hosted its first annual Circular Economy Showcase. CISL’s Emma Fromberg and Jie Zhou review the biggest takeaways from the key speakers, and the wealth of sustainable innovations shared by startups and entrepreneurs.Supported by Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leader…

26 April 2022 - This blog is the first in a series from CISL Fellow, Professor Richard Calland on Why Boards Must Lead. It explores the core fiduciary responsibility of the board of directors, and how it has changed substantially, before inviting a deeper critical reflection on the fundamental purpose of a business and the implications for board go…

22 April 2022 - CISL Prince of Wales Fellow, Pablo Salas and CISL Fellow, Paul Gilding, reflect on the urgent need to reduce methane emissions in the next decade to avoid runaway climate change.As Western powers scramble to rework their energy mix and suppliers to form a buffer against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, EU agriculture ministers have bee…

4 April 2022 - In his latest blog, Dr Tim Forman challenges the design and construction industry's linear, ‘take-make-waste’ processes, and asks how we can enable our built environment sector to deliver more for the benefit of people, nature and planet, whilst using far fewer resources? Construction Declares. Architects Declare. Engineers Declare. …

28 March 2022 - Dr Gemma Cranston, CISL’s Director for Business and Nature, reflects on the crucial role of nature, signals of positive change and the need for businesses, financiers and policy makers to align to deliver a nature-positive future.Nature is all around us and how we interact with it varies from person to person.  Having just been on m…

21 March 2022 - Tom Divney, Business Engagement Consultant for the CISL Centre for Business Transformation, and CISL’s Dr Gemma Cranston, Director, Business & Nature, Centre for Business Transformation, explain how the new diagnostic tool, Decision-making in a nature positive world, accelerates the understanding and adoption of nature-based solutio…

11 February 2022 - Zoë Arden, CISL Fellow and Head Tutor of the Women Leading Change: Shaping Our Future online course, explores why we need to place love at the heart of our leadership to create genuine and lasting change. It’s that time of year when love is on the agenda. However, it is profoundly important that we place love at the heart of our …

26 January 2022 - In this blog, Director of Leadership Programmes, Gillian Secrett, considers the type of leadership we need now to deliver the future we want. The time is right for a new kind of leadership.  As the year ahead brings hope for a move to a new way of working and living with COVID, we can build on the agility and empathy which busines…

7 March 2022 - Patrick Watson, Project Manager from 3PM, discusses the importance of a shared vision and collaborative mindset.With any challenging brief it is important to agree upfront what success actually looks like. To ensure a positive start on The Entopia Building a Project Charter was established highlighting the agreed vision behind the pr…

4 January 2022 - In our first blog of the new year, Zoë Arden, CISL Fellow and Head Tutor of the Women Leading Change: Shaping Our Future online course, explores how we can harness our resolve to tackle environmental and social injustice to ensure 2022 is a year of significant progress.  A New Year often means new resolutions. But despite new goals…

6 January 2022 - Tom Divney, Business Engagement Consultant for the CISL Centre for Business Transformation, and CISL’s Alison Thompson, Director, Business & Nature, Centre for Business Transformation, reveal learnings on how to unlock more corporate-led projects that work with nature to achieve win-wins for climate, nature and business resilience.…

20 December 2021 - In the fourth of our quarterly blogs, Alice Spencer, Programme Director for HRH Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability Programme (BSP), delves into the archives to explore how the conversation on business and sustainability has progressed since the first programme in 1994 and whether, as we approach a new year, there is ca…

20 December 2021 - Bronwyn Clare, Senior Programme Manager at CISL, argues that partnership between an insurer and their clients on net zero aligned underwriting is critical to a smooth net zero transition for both.In 2017 AXA warned a 4-degree rise in global temperature would make the world uninsurable. A lot has happened since then that has great…

The 10 principles for health and wellbeing for the WELL standard7 December 2021 - Wendy Bishop, Architype’s associate and lead architect for Entopia has been working on architectural and Passivhaus designs and ways to reduce embodied carbon on the project since it began. The Entopia Building, the re-invented new headquarters for Cambridge Institute…

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. Embracing a ‘beyond net zero’ strategy means we have an opportunity to protect not only cl…