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.
26 November 2024 - CISL’s Systems Change Officer, Eliot Whittington, unpacks this year’s dramatic UN climate negotiations – what was achieved, who was present, and what needs to happen next.
A day in the life of a Diploma in Sustainable Business student
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.
A day in the life of a Master's in Sustainability Leadership student
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.
A day in the life of a Master’s in Sustainability Leadership student
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.
A radical transformation of our economies is the only way to save nature, and ourselves
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.
Why we need new laws to end coal, oil and gas – now
22 October 2024 - Katherine Quinn writes in Climate Home News: Introducing strong policies to accelerate the rollout of renewables, coupled with a rapid, legally implemented phase-out of fossil fuels, may be our best hope for curbing global warming.
Protecting nature requires more than 'feel-good' projects from businesses
15 October 2024 - Are businesses merely paying lip service while nature collapses around us? CISL’s interim CEO Lindsay Hooper weighs in and provides her learnings on developing strong biodiversity strategies for systemic change. First published in edie.
30 years of sustainability leadership for the built environment - so, what's next?
10 October 2024 - The significance of our built environment in both its contribution to, and its response to, global challenges cannot be understated. Dr Kayla Friedman, Director for the Master’s and Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainability Leadership for the Built Environment, shares the evolution of our sustainable built environment postgraduate programmes as we celebrate 30 years of delivery with a new name for a well-established programme; and look towards the role educators still have to play in resolving these challenges.
Gas isn’t a good alternative to coal – South Africa should focus on solar, wind and green hydrogen
7 Oct 2024 - First published in The Conversation, Professor Richard Calland, the Director of CISL's Africa Programme, explores how South Africa can avoid being left behind by the change to renewable energy.
