Our blogs offer timely perspectives from CISL experts and our global network, exploring how leaders are responding to market shifts, managing risk and turning insight into action.
Silence is not a strategy when it comes to sustainability
7 April 2025 - In the current climate, there is huge opportunity for business in leading. But as the need to act grows more urgent, the political context is driving many companies to retreat from public leadership. CISL's CEO, Lindsay Hooper, makes the case for speaking up. First published in Newsweek.
Neutreeno: The journey of a Cambridge cleantech startup on the rise
31 March 2025 - This blog follows Neutreeno, a pioneering Cambridge-born cleantech venture, as it grows from academic research to a potential global force in decarbonisation. With deep roots in the University of Cambridge and support from innovation hubs like CISL’s Canopy, Neutreeno is redefining sustainability by helping businesses eliminate emissions at the source. Discover how this deeptech startup is leveraging cutting-edge science, strategic investment, and the power of collaboration to tackle the $130 trillion decarbonisation market.
What is it like to work in a collaborative hub fostering sustainability and innovation?
27 March 2025 - CISL’s Chief Innovation Officer James Cole details a day in the life at CISL’s Entopia Building, a world-class innovation hub, recently named by the Financial Times as one of Europe's leading startup hubs for the second year running.
Remote sustainability courses could close global skills gap, says University of Cambridge director
26 March 2025 - Unless sustainability courses are made more accessible to busy working professionals, the talent shortage will increase, putting the planet’s climate and other sustainability goals further beyond reach, says Dr Theo Hacking at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
With America hostile to multilateralism, G20 president South Africa should forge closer ties with Europe
19 March 2025 - The G20 is facing a crisis. This is due to the United States’ newfound hostility to multilateralism of all kinds and particular hostility to the holder of the G20 presidency, South Africa, CISL Africa's Sikho Luthango writes. First published by Reuters.
A day in the life of a Postgraduate Course Director
24 February 2025 – Dr Tim Forman, Course Director of the Master’s and Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainability Leadership for the Built Environment (SLBE) shares a day in his life at the last SLBE workshop of 2024.
Comment: The dangers of ditching Europe’s Green Deal
18 February 2025 - Remaining competitive is fundamental to Europe’s future. And implementing the European Green Deal is the best mechanism to get there. Climate change and its costs to the economy are real and set to soar. CISL's CEO, Lindsay Hooper, and the CEO of the We Mean Business Coalition, María Mendiluce, write in Reuters.
On conflict, critical minerals and the need for renewed global leadership
13 February 2025 – Sibusiso Nkomo, Africa programme manager at CISL, explains how the regional crisis around critical minerals sourcing in the DRC reflects deeper global problems as demand for these materials increases. First published by edie.
A day in the life of an Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment student
12 February 2025 - Melpomeni Rapti, Homes Propositions and Products Manager at Lloyds Banking Group, and a student on the Postgraduate Certificate in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE), shares her experience of studying the programme and details what a day looks like during the second of her two residential workshops in Cambridge, UK.
Comment: Sustainability is under unprecedented attack. Here’s how we can fight back
10 February 2025 - Those working for a sustainable future are under attack. Progress is being dismantled and a new reality is hitting hard. And yet there’s no shared plan for what comes next. The time for passive observation, or for relying on vague calls for “courage” or “digging deeper” is past. We need a new strategy – fast. Eliot Whittington writes on the Reuters website.
