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Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: What are the new boundaries of the firm?

30 April 2024 - Dr Livia Ventura, Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellow, explains how the recently approved Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive by the European Parliament will impact businesses across Europe and beyond.In the context of shifting legal trends affecting boards globally, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence D…
Expanding Horizons - What business leaders can learn from social change programmes in Africa’s Great Lakes Region?

25 April 2024 – Dr Nicoletta Piccolrovazzi considers key lessons business leaders can draw from social change programmes.Broadening Perspectives: Insights into Social JusticeWe constantly hear of concepts that are central to sustainability agendas: the triple bottom line, double materiality, environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. Consid…
The knowledge diversity blind spot impacting the 'S' of ESG

Updated 23 April 2024 - Business intelligence that seeks to promote the social dimension of ESG needs to engage with the diversity and wealth of knowledge that emerges from the human behind the data.The recent culture wars on business self-regulation through ESG have once again highlighted the tension between business profitability and social respo…
Unlocking the EU's inclusive circularity transition: Why decent and inclusive circular jobs hold the key to progress

23 April 2024 - Bianca Drotleff and Krisztina Zálnoky reflect on why a socially just transition to a circular economy is essential to ensuring equitable benefits for all workers if the EU is to deliver upon its Green Deal ambition to ‘leave no person and place behind’ in the pursuit of climate neutrality by 2050.Circular economy and just transition…
Is the energy transition in trouble?

15 April 2024 - Governments must step up to support clean energy companies facing a number of challenges in today's shifting world order, writes CISL's Katherine Quinn.After dropping its initial £28bn investment pledge, Labour is back in the green policy game, with Keir Starmer promising that the UK will become a world leader in floating offshore w…
"A great human meeting place" - what role can supermarkets play in social infrastructure?

3 April 2024 - Publicly-funded social infrastructure is disappearing, but supermarkets and other retailers are providing communities with much-needed space and resources. Caroline Lee and Rosa Marks ask if it is time to recognise supermarkets as social infrastructure.“A great human meeting place.”1It may come as a surprise that what Nobel-Prize-win…
The Crucial Role of Leadership in Sustainable Development: Bridging the Gap for a Better Future

25 March 2024 - In this blog, Khanyi Mlambo, CISL Senior Associate, discusses the need for a comprehensive leadership approach to sustainability challenges in South Africa and beyond.In recent years, we have witnessed increasing inequality, the destruction of livelihoods, infrastructure, and communities due to impacts of global warming, across the …
Asia's Crucial Role as a Leader in Global Sustainable Business

March 2024 - In the midst of a global business context where sustainable outcomes are becoming an ever-important consideration, Munish Datta, Chair of CISL's Business & Sustainability Programme, discusses how Asia is becoming a driving global force in terms of opportunity, innovation, and resources. As the world's largest and most diverse continent…
Why good leadership is needed in an age of turbulence

1 March 2024 - With time running out to bend the curve on the climate and nature crisis, rising geopolitical tensions, conflict and AI dominating political agendas, Lindsay Hooper reflects on the unprecedented challenges currently facing global leadership today and what this means for our ability to achieve the sustainability goals. This follows a …
What does leadership mean and look like in the context of a sustainable built environment?

28 February 2024 – Dr Kayla Friedman, Course Director for the Master’s and Postgraduate Certificate in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE), explores what leadership means and looks like in the context of a sustainable built environment. It is not unusual for people to ask me about what leadership is or what leadership means o…
From 1994 to 2054: transformative leadership for a sustainable, equitable world

22 February 2024 - In this blog Munish Datta, recently appointed Chair of the Business and Sustainability Programme (BSP) for its 30th year, reflects on the past 30 years of sustainability and the impact of the programme in the coming decades. 2024 marks thirty years since the Business and Sustainability Programme (BSP) was founded by His Majesty, …
Geo-politics and social justice - Do we need activists or actionists?

20 February 2024 - The struggle for social justice is hard because its intent is to disrupt the existing order which is unjust, but deeply entrenched in how our systems operate. Bringing about change in a peaceful, non-violent manner, consistent with the rule of law is a challenge, and history is replete with examples of frustrated groups resorting…
A day at Davos: what it taught me about transformational leadership for sustainability

16 February 2024 - Dr Tanja Collavo, Senior Programme Manager and Course Director of the Master’s in Sustainability Leadership, Flexible Route, discusses her experience attending Davos and what it taught her about transformational leadership for sustainability.It is undoubtable that the World Economic Forum (WEF) is one of the key places where both…
Aligning purpose with sustainable solutions: emerging legal trends for purpose-driven companies

16 February 2024 - Recent years have seen a resurgence of the debate on corporate governance and regulatory frameworks focused on environmental and social challenges. Dr Livia Ventura, Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellow, explores what purpose-driven businesses need to know now in terms of key legal trends emerging in the UK, the US and Eu…
Business needs a clear and consistent UK green investment plan

13 February 2024 - Labour's decision to ditch its £28bn manifesto pledge creates yet more uncertainty for green businesses, writes Beverley Cornaby, Director of the UK Corporate Leaders Group.First published by BusinessGreen on 09 February 2024There are times when you wake up and really wish you hadn't seen the news, as you know it's going to make …

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