Blogs

23 January 2025 - Dr Ellie Standen, Senior Associate at CISL and Master’s in Sustainability Leadership Supervisor at CISL, joined the  Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business (PCSB) Value Chains cohort for a day of learning and discussion on the topic of sustainability reporting. As someone inclined to action, I’ve always thought of sustai…

20 January 2025 – Writing in Sustainable Views, CISL's CEO, Lindsay Hooper, says it is time to reframe sustainability as a save-ourselves imperative.Global business is stuck in a losing game. Over three decades, companies have invested in so-called responsible actions on climate and nature that have yet to add up to anything like the changes needed…

15 January 2025 - Investors should integrate physical climate risks at the start of the investment process, writes Elizabeth Clark of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. First published in Responsible Investor.Last year, Spain saw one of the deadliest natural disasters in its history, as rains in Valencia killed over 200 people, …

18 December 2024 - Brishni Mukhopadhyay, Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business (PCSB) Organisational Stream supervisor at CISL shares his thoughts on sustainability in AI and finance, and how the PSCB postgraduate programme allows its students to explore and discuss these ever-evolving topics in relation to sustainability in business.As …

17 December - Nuno Taveira, CEO of ENFASYS and Investor at CENTUM Research and Technology reflects on his experience vising the UK during the Desafia Londres Cleantech Programme, and shares his advice for startups looking to explore UK markets during CISL’s accelerator and immersion programmes.Immersion or accelerator programmes are mentor and educ…

4 December 2024 - In this blog, Dr Jan Rosenow, CISL Senior Associate and course lead of the new self-paced online course, Renewable Energy Foundations for Business, explains why he’s an energy transition optimist. There are common energy fallacies that stand in the way of the transition to clean energy, he discusses, and the urgent need for intern…

27 November 2024 - In this blog, Oliver Dudok van Heel, CISL Fellow and course lead of the Sustainable Business Foundations self-paced online course, discusses the benefits of understanding sustainability as a cross-functional business opportunity to drive its agenda.Unless you’ve been living deep inside a cave, you will have experienced, or read a…

27 November 2024 - Jie Zhou, Head of International Engagement for CISL’s Innovation team, discusses why sustainability-led innovation is crucial for both startups and established businesses to thrive in a rapidly changing world. This blog builds on CISL's recent innovation thought piece, which reflects on the importance of innovators helping to bui…

26 November 2024 - CISL’s Systems Change Officer, Eliot Whittington, summarises this year’s dramatic UN climate negotiations – what was achieved, who was present, and what needs to happen next.Looking back on COP29, the recently-concluded latest round of UN climate talks, the international process has yet again delivered something complex and conte…

22 November 2024 – Sonia Ventosa García-Morato, Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability Manager at Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company and student on the Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Business, shares her experience of studying the programme and details what a day looks like during one of her residential workshops in Cambridge, UK…

22 November 2024 – First published in The Mint magazine, ​​​Ellie Standen explains how levies break, dividends divide and it’s time to take back the power industry into the public sector.Keir Starmer’s Labour Government has promised great things in terms of energy prices – lower bills for good from a zero-carbon electricity system by 2030. It's a f…

15 November 2024 – Kristin Edie, Vice President, Enterprise Sustainability at Hallmark and student on the Master’s in Sustainability Leadership, shares her experience of studying the programme and details what a day looks like during one of her residential workshops in Cambridge, UK.My day begins with... waking up in the dormitories at Robinson Col…

11 November 2024 - Barbora Kotoun, Global Leader for Circularity at IKEA and student on the Master’s in Sustainability Leadership. Barbora shares her experience of studying the programme and details what a day looks like during one of her residential workshops in Cambridge, UK.My day begins… Today is Thursday, and I’m about to share my student soun…

4 November 2024 - After two weeks of negotiations last week in Cali, Colombia, the meeting was suspended with no overall agreement on a path forward on “resource mobilisation." CISL's Chief Innovation Officer, James Cole, looks back at happened at COP16, and asks what comes next.The extended talks were suspended after it became apparent there were …

22 October 2024 - BP has ditched its pledge to curb oil production by 2030 – a plan that was once the most ambitious in the industry – switching instead to developing more fossil fuels in the Middle East. Katherine Quinn writes in Climate Home News.The new approach means we’ll see 2 million more barrels of oil per day by the end of this decade, Reu…