Tag: CISL

New CISL playbook for businesses aims to accelerate a market-wide sustainable transition

Stuart Mitchell

A new report from the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership sets out a pathway for the private sector to proactively respond to the current volatile geopolitical context while continuing sustainability efforts.  The Competing in the Age of Disruption report, co-written by CISL’s CEO Lindsay Hooper and CISL Fellow, Paul Gilding, with contributions from over 20 senior business leaders, demonstrates that innovation to drive market-wide change can create a level playing field for business action to address climate and nature risks.  Businesses face existential risk from two directions: systemic…

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CISL researcher wins prize at Cambridge Awards for Research Impact and Engagement

Stuart Mitchell

Dr Gabriel Okello won the Early Career Researcher award at the prestigious Cambridge Awards for Research Impact and Engagement earlier this week.  Gabriel is The King’s Global Sustainability Fellow in Air Quality and NCDS, supported by AstraZeneca. His work applies multidisciplinary, collaborative approaches to tackle air pollution in rapidly urbanising African cities.  The Cambridge Awards for Research Impact and Engagement, formerly the Vice-Chancellor’s Award, are held annually to recognise exceptional achievement, innovation, and creativity in developing research engagement and impact plans with significant economic, social, and cultural potential.  Following a…

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New research from CISL demonstrates the opportunities for scaling up nature-positive business and finance models to drive real action

Stuart Mitchell

Businesses and financial institutions can go beyond low return, piecemeal actions to systemic changes that incorporate nature and generate positive value for the environment and economy, two CISL reports released today show.  Scaling finance for nature: barrier breakdown and Better business: rethinking value for nature positive outcomes look at how scaling nature-positive-aligned business models must be adopted to halt and reverse nature loss and how private commercial capital can be used already today to reduce pressure on nature and enable these systemic changes.  Two years ago in Montreal, the world witnessed…

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New members to CISL’s Canopy enabling businesses to transform sustainably

Stuart Mitchell

CISL’s innovation team works to catalyse collaborative innovation to accelerate solutions to global challenges, and is pleased to welcome new members to our community. The Canopy is CISL’s global community of impact-driven start ups, entrepreneurs, major companies and investors putting sustainability at the heart of their business models, and advancing solutions to achieve net zero, protect and restore nature, and build inclusive and resilient societies.  We deliver transformational impact working with major companies, entrepreneurs, academics and investors to foster market relevant, sustainability-led innovations in products, business models, sectors and systems. …

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CISL’s Investment Leaders Group announces new Senior Sponsor Co-Chairs

Stuart Mitchell

Nicolas Faller, Executive Managing Director and Co-CEO of Asset Management at UBP, and Peter Kolthof, Chief Investment Officer, PGB Pensioendiensten, have been appointed as Senior Sponsor Co-Chairs for CISL’s Investment Leaders Group (ILG).  CISL’s Investment Leaders Group are thrilled to announce the appointment of Nicolas Faller, Executive Managing Director and Co-CEO of Asset Management at UBP, and Peter Kolthof, Chief Investment Officer, PGB Pensioendiensten, as Senior Sponsor Co-Chairs for CISL’s Investment Leaders Group (ILG).  Nicolas said: “I’m extremely proud to be Senior Sponsor Co-Chair of the Investment Leaders Group with…

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