Publications

22 September 2022 - Building on the ILG's Sustainable Investment Framework, the group have published two reports exploring the key concepts, initiatives, and investment impacts on decent work. This paves the way for the development of a simple, robust, and transparent metric for investors to measure and report both the quantitative and qualitative …

5 September 2022 – The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s (CISL) ClimateWise has published a new report on Nature Insurance. Download the report.This report seeks to raise awareness of the relevance of nature-related risks and opportunities for underwriters to explore how the insurance industry can properly account fo…

13 July 2022 - Business groups representing thousands of UK businesses, including Lloyds Banking Group, Amazon, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Signify, Scottish Power and Thames Water are calling on Tory leadership candidates to accelerate the clean energy transition and keep up UK progress on climate change.Read the full letter.In an open letter, business g…

12 July 2022 - The European Commission recently released its March Circular Economy Package, which includes a proposal for an Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). The ESPR sets a Digital Product Passport (DPP) as a key regulatory element enhancing the traceability of products and their components. The Materials & Products Taskforce…

7 July 2022 – CISL has published four sector-specific business briefings that outline the challenges and actions needed to implement nature-based solutions projects. The sectors include: Water, Finance, Food and Beverage, and Built Environment and Linear Infrastructure.Four years after The Catchment Management Declaration was launched by HRH The Pr…

24 June 2022 – CLG Europe Director Eliot Whittington sent a letter to the Competitiveness Council reflecting on the discussion around the Strategic Industrial Ecosystems and Empowering Consumers on the Green Transition.Read the letter in full here.Following the June Competitiveness Council, the letter aims to highlight how the Competitiveness Counc…

13 June 2022 – Two new regenerative nature project models from CISL, the East of England Landscape Enterprise Network, and Poole Harbour Nutrient Management Scheme offer blueprints for land management that supports improved biodiversity and water quality through more sustainable agriculture. Modelling Nature-Positive Land Management: Lessons from t…

9 June 2022 - This policy briefing seeks to contribute to understanding the links between China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), urban transformation and global development. The brief draws on fieldwork conducted in five cities across the Global South and North where BRI infrastructures and investments on the built environment are currently being …

7 March 2022 - As the crisis in Ukraine worsens, leading sustainability business groups are urging the EU to ‘double down’ on delivering the energy transition laid out in the Green Deal as the best way to manage current and increasing risks from energy insecurity.In an open letter sent as Russian troops continue their offensive in Ukraine, the Euro…

26 January 2022 - In an open letter to the EU Internal Market and Justice Commissioners, coordinated by MEP Pascal Canfin, business leaders and CLG Europe call on the EU to seize the opportunity of the upcoming Corporate Sustainability Package to introduce a measure linking environmental objectives to part of company executives’ variable remunerati…

January 2013 – The Future in Practice; the idea of the long term, and of avoiding ‘short-termism’, has become a dominant topic in business and sustainability debates.Download the report The question of how far leaders can envisage or influence the future has never been so hotly debated. In this Introduction to The State of Sustainability: The Futur…