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Restoring Human Progress: A Mission to Unlock Growth and Climate Action

4 December 2025 - Economic investment and meaningful action on climate and nature both depend on a shared foundation: belief in the future. New research shows that in every G7 country today, that belief is missing. To break the vicious cycle of malaise and shortsightedness, we need to restore human progress as the aspiration and expectation for our…
From disclosure to impact: reflections and recommendations on the first wave of sustainability (ESRS) reporting

3 December 2025 - CISL EU Sustainable Finance Lead Tsvetelina Kuzmanova reflects on the opportunities Europe has to align sustainability reporting with the real-world challenges faced by companies, investors and policymakers.As the EU’s new sustainability reporting rules begin to take effect, many companies are navigating their first year of disclo…
Op-ed: Good COP or bad COP? Weighing up the Belém Summit's successes and failures

27 November 2025 - COP30 may not have delivered the outcome climate science shows the world needs, but it demonstrated that the multilateral UN Paris Agreement process is alive, writes Corporate Leaders Group UK Director Bev Cornaby.First published in BusinessGreen.When a fire broke out at the COP30 summit venue hosting UN climate negotiations in B…
High-stakes Budget: can the UK meet the moment and shape its future?

26 November 2025 - CISL's Chief Systems Change Officer Eliot Whittington signals why the UK Autumn Budget is a key opportunity to unlock investment and maintain momentum.The Chancellor has a difficult task on her plate and may well be seen to have succeeded if she manages to deliver a budget that doesn't immediately self-destruct. But she and we sh…
CLG UK op-ed and rapid reaction to the Autumn Statement 2025

26 November 2025 - Today the Chancellor of the Exchequer presented her Autumn Budget 2025 to Parliament, which outlines the choices and decisions about the nation's finances. The UK Corporate Leaders Group has provided a rapid reaction to the contents of today's announcement.Eliot Whittington, Chief Systems Change Officer, Cambridge Institute for S…
With the U.S. off the climate stage, Latin America is ready to lead

María Teresa Ruiz-Tagle, Executive Director, CLG-Chile, shares why Latin America is ready to lead—and what it needs from COP30November 12 - The United States, once a driving force behind the Paris Agreement, has once again exited the Paris Agreement and is doubling down on fossil-fuel production. This sharp reversal under the Trump Administration u…
Educating for Change: A Decade of Sustainability Leadership with Kevin Chu

21 November 2025 - Kevin Chu, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Metropolitan University and alum of the Master’s in Sustainability Leadership reflects on his journey since graduating in 2016.Kevin Chu, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Metropolitan University and alum of the Master’s in Sustainability Leadership, reflects on his journ…
How CISL sparked my path from student to published researcher and industry advocate

21 November 2025 - Miranda Braga, Head of Procurement Excellence at TPG Telecom and alumna of Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business (PCSB) – Value Chains stream, shares highlights from her time studying the PCSB, her advice to recent alumni and her hopes for the future of the Australian market.After completing the Postgraduate Certificat…
What Next for Leadership? Rebuilding Confidence in the Future

How do we rebuild confidence in the future - and in our collective ability to shape it? How do we reconnect economic growth with social progress? How do we harness innovation without exacerbating inequality – and navigate political tensions without retreating from cooperation?These are not abstract questions. They are the practical tests of leaders…
From Legacy to Impact – The role of families in shaping the future

3 November 2025 - As part of CISL’s work on Business Leadership, in October 2025 we brought together a panel of experts in multi-generational leadership to explore how families - particularly those responsible for stewarding enterprises, investments or philanthropic initiatives - can play a pivotal role in building sustainable and resilient societi…
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 ca…
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 and businesses face unprecedented complexity and risk. In this blog, Phil Hazell discusses why sustainability must be woven into core business strategy, with leadership embracing disruptive innovation and radical collaborati…
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.When I joined the Sustainable Mark…
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 inno…
Building Something Better: Confidence, Coalitions and Change

14 October 2025 - CEO, Lindsay Hooper, discusses what leadership in a major business today truly means and sets out CISL's business leadership agenda to help leaders ‘be part of building something better.’From protest lines to earnings calls, from inaugurations to collapsing governments, from AI mania to shuttering high streets, change is the hallm…

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