In-the-press

14 April 2025 - Our latest business briefing launched last week. Here's a round-up of op-eds and media coverage. Opinion pieces Newsweek: Silence is not a strategy when it comes to sustainability - Lindsay Hooper, CISL CEO In the current climate, there is huge opportunity for business in leading...

8 April 2025 - Dr Nina Seega, the Director of CISL's Centre for Sustainable Finance, explains why it's time for the private sector to step up and finance adaptations to climate change. First published by Forbes.

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.

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.

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.

4 March 2025 - Over the past six weeks, multiple Rubicons have been crossed. With geopolitical instability accelerating, our CEO Lindsay Hooper explains why sustainability must be recast as a core component of national resilience.

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.

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.

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.